What Is AI Distillation?

What Is AI Distillation?

And what does it mean if DeepSeek did it?

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OpenAI has said that it believes that DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up behind the shockingly powerful AI model that launched last month, may have ripped off its technology. The irony is rich: We’ve known for some time that generative AI tends…

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