THE cheap Chinese chat-bot DeepSeek has been smacked with claims it ripped-off America’s OpenAI – ChatGPT’s developer.
The Chinese are thought to have even used the Western software to “train” DeepSeek in their quest to create the most powerful robot brain, sparking copyright concerns.
David Sacks, President Trump’s AI tsar, claimed there is “substantial evidence” that China’s budget chat-bot is a knock-off of US technology.
He said the DeepSeek team may have trained their product by “sucking knowledge” out of OpenAI‘s model in a process known as “distilling”.
He added: “I don’t think OpenAI is very happy about this.”
David’s comments followed claims from OpenAI itself that other companies were “constantly trying to distil the modelsof leading …