Accusations of violation of the intellectual property between Openai and Deepseek

Openii, the US company known for the development of chatgpt, has raised accusations of violation of intellectual property against Deepseek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company. Deepseek recently attracted attention for having released low -cost IA models that can compete with Openai’s tip offers, but the American company suspects that these models were built using their data. According to Bloomberg, Openai and Microsoft, his commercial partner, are investigating the possibility that Deepseek has used the Openi bees to integrate Openii’s models in his own. Sources of Bloomberg say that Microsoft’s security researchers have detected the subtraction of large quantities of data through Openai developers accounts at the end of 2024, that the company believes to be affiliated to Deepseek.

Openii told the Financial Times that he had found tests that connect Deepseek to the use of distillation, a technique commonly used by developers to train IA models by extracting data from larger and more powerful models. It is an efficient method to train smaller models to a fraction of the cost incurred by Openai to train GPT-4, estimated at over 100 million dollars. Although the developers can use the Openii bees to integrate its IA with their applications, the distillation of outputs to build competing models constitutes a violation of the terms of service of Openai. Openii did not provide details on the tests found.

The situation presents an evident irony, considering that Openai has made enormous progress with its GPT model using the entire corpus of texts available on the web without obtaining consent. “We know that companies based in the People’s Republic of China – and others – constantly try to distil the models of the main US companies of IA,” said Openai in a note in Bloomberg. “As a leader in the construction of IA, we adopt countermeasures to protect our intellectual property, including a careful process to determine which border capacity to include in the models issued, and we believe it is of fundamental importance to work closely with the United States government for best protecting the most capable models from the efforts of opponents and competitors to take possession of US technology “.