Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether raw data from OpenAI technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group associated with Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek. Bloomberg.
According to the publication's sources, Microsoft security researchers noticed in the fall that individuals who may be associated with DeepSeek were extracting a large amount of data using the OpenAI application programming interface, or API.
Software developers can pay for a license to use the API to integrate OpenAI's proprietary artificial intelligence models into their own applications.
Microsoft, OpenAI’s technology partner and largest investor, notified OpenAI of this activity. Such activity may violate OpenAI’s terms of service or may indicate that the group was acting to remove OpenAI’s restrictions on the amount of data they could obtain.
Additionally, David Sachs, the White House adviser on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, said there was “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek relied on the output of OpenAI models to help develop its own technology. In an interview with Fox News, Sachs described a technique called distillation, in which one AI model uses the output of another to train to develop similar capabilities.
“There is substantial evidence that DeepSeek has extracted knowledge from OpenAI’s models here, and I don’t think OpenAI is very happy about that,” — said Sachs.
In a statement responding to Sachs' comments, OpenAI did not directly comment on his words about DeepSeek.
“We know that companies from the PRC — and others — are constantly trying to adopt the models of leading American companies in the field of AI,” — said an OpenAI representative.
Thank you for being with us! Monobank for the support of the ElitExpert editorial office.
