Witnesses challenge narrative around China’s AI advances with DeepSeek

Witnesses at a House Science Committee hearing on the implications of China’s artificial intelligence advances argued lawmakers are wrong to take comfort in the idea that developers of the DeepSeek AI model were only successful because they were copying off the work of U.S. companies.

“DeepSeek reportedly distilled their models from OpenAI's systems, demonstrating that Chinese AI development remains reliant on our innovations,” Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA), chairman of the Science subcommittee on research and technology, said during an...