DeepSeek explained that it used new techniques in reinforcement learning, but others suspect that it might also have benefitted from unauthorized model distillation. Within a week, there was a strong ...

Since Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek rattled Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its cost-effective models, the company has been accused of data theft through a practice that ...

David Sacks, U.S. President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar. David Sacks says OpenAI has evidence that Chinese company DeepSeek used a technique called "distillation" to build a rival model. OpenAI ...

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek roiled markets in January, setting off a massive tech and semiconductor selloff after unveiling AI models that it said were cheaper and more efficient than ...

Model distillation is one of the technology trends that has reached a level of maturity identified in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for artificial intelligence (AI) as “the slope of enlightenment”.

David Sacks says OpenAI has evidence that Chinese company DeepSeek used a technique called "distillation" to build a rival model. OpenAI has evidence that China's DeepSeek used OpenAI's models to ...