US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems

The U.S. accused DeepSeek and five other Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba and Moonshot AI, of using large-scale model distillation to extract information from American AI systems, according to a September report.

In addition, OpenAI and Anthropic have separately raised concerns about DeepSeek’s alleged use of model distillation, a technique that uses outputs from one AI model to train another. Earlier this year, OpenAI told U.S. lawmakers it had observed suspected attempts by DeepSeek to distill its models, while Anthropic said it had identified unauthorized attempts by DeepSeek and other Chinese AI labs to collect outputs from Claude.