OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used ChatGPT to train its AI

Chinese startup DeepSeek stunned the world with its sophisticated DeepSeek R1 reasoning model, which is as good as ChatGPT o1. That's not a surprising achievement; it's only a matter of time before other AI models can replicate what OpenAI has done in terms of AI reasoning. Also, OpenAI will soon make o3 available, the successor to o1.

What really shocked the markets was DeepSeek's research, which showed that the company was able to train R1 to achieve the same capabilities at a fraction of the cost of training o1.

Because of US sanctions, DeepSeek didn't have access to the latest NVIDIA GPUs that AI firms like OpenAI use to train high-end AI models. It turned to software optimizations to compensate for what it lacked in hardware to create an AI model that could match ChatGPT o1.

But it turns out software optimization isn't everything DeepSeek might have done to train its AI. OpenAI claims it has evidence that DeepSeek distilled ChatGPT to train the DeepSeek AI models.

If that's true, the practice violates OpenAI's terms of service for ChatGPT. Ironically, if OpenAI's claim is true, it'll make the company experience what many creators felt when they discovered OpenAI may have trained its ChatGPT models using copyrighted materials without consent.

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