David Sacks said there's evidence that DeepSeek 'distilled' knowledge from OpenAI's models, a process that Sacks equated to theft.
ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.
Did the upstart Chinese tech company DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make the artificial intelligence technology that shook Wall Street this week?
DeepSeek supposedly achieved similar results training up its model to OpenAi’s ChatGPT for around 6% of the cost of its US competitor. The news wiped more than US$1 trillion in value from the AI chipmaker NVIDIA’s market cap, along with sending several tech stocks south, and suddenly left US tech gods looking like they had feet of clay.
David Sacks, Trump's crypto czar, said former President Biden's executive order on Artificial Intelligence has hamstrung American AI companies.
The Medium post goes over various flavors of distillation, including response-based distillation, feature-based distillation and relation-based distillation. It also covers two fundamentally different modes of distillation – off-line and online distillation.
OpenAI has accused Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of using its proprietary models to train an open-source competitor, raising concerns over potential intellectual property violations.The Financial Times reported that OpenAI found evidence of "distillation,
"I don't think OpenAI is very happy about this," said the White House's AI czar, who suggested that DeepSeek used a technique called distillation.
Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek disrupted Silicon Valley with the release of cheaply developed AI models that compete with flagship offerings from OpenAI — but the ChatGPT maker suspects they were built upon OpenAI data.