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Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, stated on Monday that his company has “no plans” to sue DeepSeek, a Chinese startup that shocked Silicon Valley with its very capable and relatively inexpensive chatbot.
OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, issued a warning last week that Chinese tech companies were hotly trying to copy its sophisticated AI models.
While describing DeepSeek as an impressive model, Sam Altman vowed that OpenAI would keep improving and producing “great products”.
“No, we have no plans to sue DeepSeek right now. We are going to just continue to build great products and lead the world with model capability, and I think that will work out fine,” Altman told reporters in Tokyo.
“DeepSeek is certainly an impressive model, but we believe we will continue to push the frontier and deliver great products, so we’re happy to have another competitor,” he noted.
“We’ve had many before, and I think it is in everyone’s interest for us to push ahead and continue to lead,” he concluded.
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DeepSeek has courted accusations and allegations from several quarters claiming that it was developed through the reverse-engineering of US technologies, including OpenAI, the AI that powers ChatGPT.
Recently, OpenAI raised an alarm saying that competitors are employing a technique called distillation, whereby smaller AI models are trained to mimic the behavior and decision-making patterns of larger models, much like a student learning from a teacher.
However, the OpenAI is also being accused of several intellectual property crimes, mostly for using copyrighted materials to train its generative AI models.
Altman had previously stated that OpenAI would keep producing improved models. He hinted that his company might rearrange its scheduled releases to meet market demands, but that it will eventually continue to concentrate on its research roadmap toward artificial general intelligence, AGI. An AGI is a kind of futuristic AI that surpasses humans in cognitive capabilities.
On Monday, OpenAI unveiled a new ChatGPT tool called “deep research“. It claims that its new tool can “find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report in tens of minutes vs what would take human many hours.”
