I’m not sure why folks don’t speculate China is able to obtain copies of OpenAI's weights.
Seems reasonable they would be investing heavily in plaing state assets within OpenAI so they can copy the models.
Seems reasonable they would be investing heavily in plaing state assets within OpenAI so they can copy the models.
Looking back on the article, it is indeed using "distillation" as a special/"term of art" but not using it correctly. IE, it's not actually speculating that DeepSeek obtained OpenAI's weights and distilled them down but rather that it used OpenAI's answers/output as a starting point (which there is a different method/"term of art").