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Re:OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its mod... by mannewalis on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:30AM (#42864683)
But OpenAI's model isn't open source, how would they distill knowledge without direct access to the model?
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Re:OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its mod... by layer8 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:36AM (#42864746)
You don’t need direct access for LLM distillation, just regular API access.
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Re:OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its mod... by mannewalis on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:41AM (#42864782)
ok I looked it up and have a better understanding now.
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