Yes. They bounced millions of queries off of ChatGPT to teach/form/train their DeepSeek model. This bot-like querying was the "distillation."
They definitely didn't. They demonstrated their stuff long before OAI and the models were nothing like each other.
Why would OpenAI allow someone to do that?
They definitely didn't. They demonstrated their stuff long before OAI and the models were nothing like each other.