A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

Here, the bigger, more complex model — which is considered to be the "teacher model" — transfers much of its learnings to the smaller "student model.""They can essentially mimic the reasoning process that they learn from the parent model and they can suck the knowledge out of the parent model,

David Sacks says OpenAI has evidence that Chinese company DeepSeek used a technique called "distillation" to build a rival model.

White House AI czar David Sacks says, “There’s substantial evidence that DeepSeek distilled knowledge from OpenAI models.”

Elon Musk doesn’t miss an opportunity to take a dig at OpenAI — even when the news item in question is supposed to be favorable to President Trump. Just a few hours after yesterday’s White House presser on The Stargate Project wrapped up, Musk posted on X that “they don’t actually have the money.”

Such announcements aren’t without political risks, as OpenAI learned when Trump adviser Elon Musk criticized the deal on the social network he owns.

The White House is expected to announce a multibillion-dollar investment in American artificial-intelligence infrastructure from a joint venture of OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle on Tuesday afternoon. The companies are committing $100 billion to the joint venture,

Tech titan David Sacks reveals the status of the country's tech race with China and why U.S. data centers are important on 'The Story.'

ChatGPT creator OpenAI said on Tuesday said that Chinese firms are "constantly" trying to tap into U.S. rivals to improve Chinese artificial intelligence models.

Silicon Valley’s been rattled by a low-cost Chinese AI – with the start-up claiming its DeepSeek technology can emulate the performance of ChatGPT, at a fraction of the cost. Its launch shook share markets and spawned allegations from OpenAI that their Chinese rivals used its work and models to make their artificial intelligence.