I think readers should note that the article did not provide any evidence for OpenAI’s claims, only OpenAI declining to provide evidence, various people repeating the claim, others reacting to it.
It does matter whether it happened and how much it happened. Deepseek ran head to head comparisons against O1 so it would be pretty reasonable for them to have made API calls, for example.
But also, as the article notes, distillation, supervised fine tuning, and using LLM as a judge are all common techniques in research, which OpenAI knows very well.
It does matter whether it happened and how much it happened. Deepseek ran head to head comparisons against O1 so it would be pretty reasonable for them to have made API calls, for example.
But also, as the article notes, distillation, supervised fine tuning, and using LLM as a judge are all common techniques in research, which OpenAI knows very well.