OpenAI shrank! Altman: No plans to sue DeepSeek, focus on building better products

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated yesterday that there are no plans to sue the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, despite previous accusations of potential intellectual property infringement. (Background: Feeling pressured by DeepSeek? OpenAI releases new reasoning model o3-mini for free! Altman admits for the first time: Closed-source strategy was wrong) (Additional context: DeepSeek raises cybersecurity concerns, Taiwanese government agencies ban its use! Legislator: We shouldn't just ban, but also invest in AI development) Sam Altman, CEO of American company OpenAI, stated yesterday (3rd) in Tokyo that the company currently has 'no plans' to sue the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. Altman emphasized that OpenAI's focus is still on creating high-quality products and maintaining a leading position in the industry through technical prowess. Despite fierce market competition, promoting AI technological progress and maintaining a leading position is beneficial for the entire industry. Is it difficult for OpenAI to defend its rights? Just a week ago, OpenAI revealed evidence that DeepSeek may have used 'distillation' technology to access its models, and accused DeepSeek of infringing on OpenAI's intellectual property. However, the attitude now seems to have softened, and the market's reaction to his decision is not unexpected, after all, distillation is very common in AI model training, and trying to prohibit this behavior may also face various challenges. Dr. Ritwik Gupta, an AI Ph.D. from the University of California, pointed out: Startups and academic institutions often use commercial large models like ChatGPT, which have been trained with human alignment, to train their own models, which means you can obtain research results of top models at a low cost. I'm not surprised if DeepSeek may use this method. If they did, it would be very difficult to completely stop this behavior. In addition, the Financial Times also pointed out that OpenAI itself is facing accusations of copyright infringement, including lawsuits from the New York Times and several well-known authors, alleging that it used news releases and book content to train its AI models without permission. Does the emergence of DeepSeek accelerate market innovation? The Chinese AI startup DeepSeek recently launched an AI model that is low-cost, high-performance, and claims to be comparable to OpenAI, quickly gaining followers in the market, and putting pressure on existing AI large model development companies. Or, in response, the developer of ChatGPT, OpenAI, officially released the lightweight AI model o3-mini on February 1st, with Pro users having unlimited access to o3-mini, and Plus and Team users having a three times speed limit compared to o1-mini, while free users can try it out in Reason mode on ChatGPT. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time OpenAI has opened its reasoning model to free users, and it seems that the emergence of DeepSeek does indeed require OpenAI to respond more actively to market competition, which may not necessarily be a bad thing for users. Related reports Feeling pressured by DeepSeek? OpenAI releases new reasoning model o3-mini for free! Altman admits for the first time: Closed-source strategy was wrong DeepSeek raises cybersecurity concerns, Taiwanese government agencies ban its use! Legislator: We shouldn't just ban, but also invest in AI development FBI, White House step in for investigation! U.S. suspects: DeepSeek obtained NVIDIA chips through a front company in Singapore <OpenAI shrinks! Altman: No plans to sue DeepSeek, focused on creating higher-quality products> This article was first published on BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain news media in the BlockTempo movement.