Microsoft and Openai against Chinese Deepseek have passed on the counterattack. Specifically, the US company claimed that it has evidence that the Chinese start -up business has used data from its model to train its chatbot, according to the Financial Times.

The company cited “distillation”, a method in which smaller models of artificial intelligence improve by learning from larger and more advanced models. However, the terms of OpenAi prohibit the use of its results for the development of competitive systems AD, raising concerns about violations of its intellectual property.

“We know that companies based in China – and others – are constantly trying to” distil “the models of USA’s leading artificial intelligence companies,” The company said.

“As the leading artificial intelligence manufacturer, we are involved in countermeasures to protect our intellectual property, including a careful process of what opportunities we will include in the models in circulation. And we believe that as we move forward it is extremely important to work closely with the US government to better protect the most capable models from the efforts of opponents and competitors to take US technology. “said a spokesman for the company.

At the same time, and the Bloomberg He reported that Microsoft Corp. and Openai investigate whether data extracted from Openai technology were acquired in an unauthorized manner by a group associated with the Deepseek.

Microsoft, Openai’s technological partner and its larger investor, informed Openai about the activity of this group.

Such an activity as Bloomberg explains, in addition to violating Openai’s terms of service, may indicate that the team acted to abolish Openai restrictions to obtained the datasources say.

And David Sacks, a tsar of President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence, said on Tuesday that there was “significant evidence” that Deepseek was based on the production of Openai models to help develop its own technology.

In an interview with Fox News, Saks said: “There is significant evidence that what Deepseek has done is that it has gained knowledge from Openai models and I don’t think Openai is very happy about it.”he pointed out.