OpenAI has shrunk! Altman: No plans to sue DeepSeek, focus on creating better products

Here is the English translation: The CEO of OpenAI in the US, Sam Altman, said in Tokyo yesterday (3rd) that the company currently has "no plans" to sue the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. Altman emphasized: "OpenAI's focus is still on building quality products and maintaining its industry-leading position through technological capabilities. Although market competition is fierce, driving the progress of AI technology and maintaining a leading position is beneficial to the entire industry." Is it difficult for OpenAI to protect its rights? Just a week ago, OpenAI revealed that it had found evidence that DeepSeek might have used its models through "distillation" technology, and indicated that DeepSeek might have infringed on OpenAI's intellectual property rights. But now the attitude seems to have softened, and the market is not surprised by his decision, after all, distillation is very common in the training of AI models, and it may face many challenges to prohibit such behavior. UC Berkeley AI PhD Ritwik Gupta said: "Startups and academic institutions often use commercialized large models like ChatGPT that have been human-aligned for training their own models, which means you can obtain the research results of top models at low cost." "I'm not surprised that DeepSeek may have adopted this approach, and if they have indeed done so, it will become very difficult to completely prevent such behavior." In addition, the Financial Times also pointed out that OpenAI itself is also facing allegations of copyright infringement, including lawsuits filed by The New York Times and several well-known writers, accusing it of using news articles and book content to train its AI models without permission. Does the emergence of DeepSeek accelerate market innovation? The Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has recently launched a low-cost, high-performance AI model that claims to be comparable to OpenAI, which has quickly attracted market attention and put pressure on existing AI large model R&D companies. Or to counteract this, the developer of ChatGPT, OpenAI, officially released the lightweight AI model o3-mini on February 1st. Pro users will have unlimited access to o3-mini, the rate limit for Plus and Team users is three times that of o1-mini, and free users can try the Reason mode in ChatGPT. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time OpenAI has opened up the inference model to free users, and it seems that the emergence of DeepSeek has indeed forced OpenAI to respond more actively to market competition, but it may not necessarily be a bad thing for users.