DeepSeek’s R1 release has generated heated discussions on the topic of model distillation and how companies may protect against unauthorized distillation. Model distillation has broad IP implications ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. There’s a new wrinkle in the saga of Chinese company DeepSeek’s recent announcement of a super-capable R1 model that combines high ...
David Sacks, U.S. President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar. David Sacks says OpenAI has evidence that Chinese company DeepSeek used a technique called "distillation" to build a rival model. OpenAI ...
Model distillation is one of the technology trends that has reached a level of maturity identified in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for artificial intelligence (AI) as “the slope of enlightenment”.