Anthropic · DeepSeek · OpenAI · GPT · China · Federal Reserve (FED) · CNBC Technology
Anthropic has accused Chinese companies such as Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, and MiniMax of the practice
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In the midst of this, the U.S.'s National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Federal Bureau of Investigation released an official cyber security advisory warning on the topic on Tuesday.
Key facts
- Anthropic has accused Chinese companies such as Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, and MiniMax of the practice, while OpenAI believes DeepSeek's V3 and R1 model architectures were distilled from its own GPT-4
- In the midst of this, the U.S.'s National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Federal Bureau of Investigation released an official cyber security advisory warning
- I would do nothing" about distillation, he told CNBC at Y Combinator's annual Demo Day
- Tan also touts a more restrained approach to AI safety, where recent doomsday headlines tied to the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon have led to record-high fears from the public
Summary
At a time when some Silicon Valley giants and national security experts are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model distillation, Garry Tan, chief executive of famed startup accelerator Y Combinator, is less concerned. "I would do nothing" about distillation, he told CNBC at Y Combinator's annual Demo Day. Distillation is the process of using the outputs of a more capable AI model to train a smaller or less capable one, sometimes illicitly. Critics have pushed back on Anthropic and OpenAI's distillation complaints because much of the data used to train these AI models may be covered under copyright law, which Tan highlighted.