White House AI czar David Sacks alleged Tuesday that DeepSeek had used OpenAI’s data outputs to train its latest models through a process called distillation.

DeepSeek’s impact on the current AI industry and big companies’ shares. The emergence of DeepSeek shook the foundations of the artificial intelligence industry as we know it.

OpenAI believes DeepSeek used a process called “distillation,” which helps make smaller AI models perform better by learning from larger ones.