News Summary

• DeepSeek demonstrated that a lean, efficient model could compete with resource-guzzling American systems.
• The method of attack is described as “distillation,” a legitimate and widely used research technique.
• When a user downloads DeepSeek, the file is an unprotected GGUF format, a collection of numerical weights.
• To even run the model, one needs additional software developed primarily in the United States or Western Europe, such as Ollama or LM Studio.
• The u.s. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told an event at Southern Methodist University that “the Chinese distill our models and they can never get ahead of us”