DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that’s just over a year old, has stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley.

Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called "distillation." The technique,

Deepseek collects similar data to American-based AI models, but Chinese laws could make that data more accessible to the government.