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In a recent interview with Financial Times, OpenAI expressed its frustration at what it perceives as data appropriation by DeepSeek. The company claimed to have gathered evidence that DeepSeek used a technique known as "distillation"—a method employed to enhance the performance of smaller models by leveraging data outputs from larger, more advanced systems like its own GPT model. This progression allows other developers to achieve comparable results at a significantly lower expense.