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Chinese firms ‘distilling’ US AI models to create rival products, warns OpenAI
ChatGPT maker cites IP protection concerns amid reports DeepSeek used its model to create rival chatbot
OpenAI has warned that Chinese startups are “constantly” using its technology to develop competing products, amid reports that DeepSeek used the ChatGPT maker’s AI models to create a rival chatbot. However, on Wednesday OpenAI said that it had seen some evidence of “distillation” from Chinese companies, referring to a development technique that boosts the performance of smaller models by using larger more advanced ones to achieve similar results on specific tasks. Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty ImagesOn Tuesday, David Sacks, Donald Trump’s AI and crypto tsar, told Fox News that he thought it was “possible” that intellectual property theft had occurred.
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