Jan 28 (Reuters) - 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.

"As the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures

to protect our IP, including a careful process for which

frontier capabilities to include in released models, and believe

as we go forward that it is critically important that we are

working closely with the U.S. government to best protect the

most capable models from efforts by adversaries and competitors

to take US technology," OpenAI said in a statement.

OpenAI made the comments after the White House said it was

evaluating possible national security concerns raised by China's

DeepSeek.

David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto czar, said an

AI technique call "distillation" can be used by Chinese firms to

learn from U.S. AI leaders.