Summary

OpenAI and Microsoft are investigating whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek improperly trained its R1 model using OpenAI’s outputs.

Reports suggest DeepSeek may have used “distillation,” a technique where one AI model learns from another by asking vast numbers of questions.

Venture capitalist and Trump administration member David Sacks claims there is “substantial evidence” of this.

Critics highlight the irony of OpenAI complaining about data misuse, given its own history of scraping vast amounts of data without authorization to train its models.