OpenAI warns US lawmakers about DeepSeek's attempts to replicate its AI models using US systems, raising concerns over intellectual property theft.
OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that the Chinese startup DeepSeek is attempting to replicate its artificial intelligence models by using techniques that rely on US systems, reported Reuters.
The company stated that DeepSeek is targeting ChatGPT and other leading US labs to train its own models.
In a memo viewed by Reuters, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of 'ongoing efforts to free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other US frontier labs.' This practice, known as distillation, involves having a powerful, established model evaluate the answers of a newer one, effectively transferring knowledge.
The memo was sent to the US House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the US and the Chinese Communist Party. OpenAI indicated that it had observed accounts linked to DeepSeek employees developing methods to bypass access restrictions, including the use of obfuscated third-party routers to mask their source.
