Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams is set to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, revealing how the company’s AI model, Llama, played a critical role in accelerating China’s AI capabilities — particularly contributing to the rise of DeepSeek.
Actively endorsed by Chinese officials, DeepSeek has emerged as a formidable rival to OpenAI, with its launch costing just $6 million — a fraction of what most large language models require. Its emergence has created ripples across the world with many seeing it as an affordable alternative to AI models from OpenAI and Meta.
Citing “Project Aldrin” as Meta’s secret mission to get into China, Wynn-William’s written testimony stated, “Meta built a physical pipeline connecting the United States and China. Meta executives ignored warnings that this would provide backdoor access to the Chinese Communist Party, allowing them to intercept the personal data and private messages of American citizens. The only reason China does not currently have access to US user data through this pipeline is because Congress stepped in.”
She also claimed that “Meta’s AI model – Llama – has contributed significantly to Chinese advances in AI technologies like DeepSeek.”
According to the testimony, Meta started briefing the Chinese Communist Party as early as 2015, focusing on critical...
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