OpenAI accuses Chinese AI firm DeepSeek of stealing its content through "knowledge distillation," sparking concerns over security, ethics, and national interests.

Since Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek rattled Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its cost-effective models, the company has been accused of data theft through a practice that is common across the industry.

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.