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Report Alleges DeepSeek and Moonshot Used OpenAI Outputs for Training
The Indian Express1h
THE BRIEF
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Chinese AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model to train their latest models, according to a report by The Information.
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The practice of model distillation has become a key flashpoint in US-China technology competition as leading firms argue it allows rivals to reproduce advanced capabilities quickly and cheaply.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro and DeepSeek's upgraded V4.1-Flash 1017 model both benefited from distilling Astra, while OpenAI previously linked distillation efforts to individuals associated with Moonshot.