Operai has warned that new Chinese companies are “constantly” using their technology to develop competitors, amid reports that Depseek used the AI models of the Chatgpt manufacturer to create a rival chatbot.
Operai and his partner Microsoft, who has invested $ 13 billion in the IA developer based in San Francisco, have been investigating whether patented technology had been obtained unauthorized through a technique known as “distillation.”
The launch of the Deepseek’s last chatbot sent the markets on Monday after it exceeded the Apple free application store, cleaning $ 1strn of the market value of US technological actions linked to AI. The impact came from his statement that the model that supports his AI was trained with a fraction of the cost and hardware used by rivals such as OpenAi and Google.
Sam Altman, Executive Director of Openai, initially said he was impressed with Depseek and that it was “legitimately stimulating to have a new competitor.”
However, on Wednesday, Openai said that he had seen some evidence of “distillation” of Chinese companies, referring to a development technique that increases the performance of smaller models by using others more advanced larger to achieve similar results In specific tasks. Operai’s statement was not referred to directly.
“We know that companies based on (China), and others are constantly trying to distill the models of the main American companies,” Openai spokesman said. “As the main builder of AI, we participate in countermeasures to protect our IP (intellectual property), including a careful process for which border capabilities will include in launched models.”
Openai, who has been accused of using data without permission or a license from the editors and the creative industry to train their own models, has already blocked unidentified entities to try to distill their models.
The Operai spokesman added that it was now “critically important” that the company worked with the United States government to “better protect the most capable models of the efforts of adversaries and competitors to carry the technology of the United States.”
On Tuesday, David Sacks, AI and Crypto Tsar by Donald Trump, told Fox News that he thought it was “possible” that intellectual property robbery would have occurred.
“There is substantial evidence that what Deepseek did here is that they distilled the knowledge of Openai models,” he said. “I think one of the things you will see in the coming months is our leading companies of AI taking measures to try to avoid distillation. That would definitely slow down some of these imitation models. “
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According to reports, the US Navy has already banned its members to use Depseek applications due to “potential security and ethical concerns.”
The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the United States National Security Council was investigating the possible implications raised by the AI application.
Earlier this week, Trump called the launch of Depseek a “attention call” for Silicon Valley in the global race to dominate artificial intelligence.
The research carried out by OpenAI and Microsoft in the possible distillation was first reported. By Bloomberg. Microsoft declined to comment.