Please especially don't submit knock-off articles that jack up the linkbait and indignation. That's what we're trying to avoid on Hacker News. There are enough places to get that hit elsewhere.
Can we change the headline of this article to something more accurate and less clickbaity?
The article unjustifiably labels OpenAI as "furious" despite surfacing zero evidence that that's how they actually feel, obviously in an attempt to paint them as hypocrites who are okay with copying others but are upset at being copied.
This is a very dishonestly-framed and -advertised story.
As I understand from Twitter, the issue explained in this article is not the actual case at hand. The issue is that they suspect them of stealing the o1 model with the weights via corporate espionage and optimizing it with Matrix Multiplication and other upgrades. That would explain why the outputs are nearly identical in some cases.
I don't know how much of any of this is true. This is what I'm reading on Twitter today.
OpenAI's model is closed source. IDK if distilling can be done via the API effectively? DeepSeek already has distilled models from other open source models like Qwen which have been done by 3rd party researchers, and I assumed that happened rapidly because they are all open source.
There is nothing in this article to suggest that OpenAI is "furious" or even upset. Zero evidence. It's total clickbait.
And it's embarrassing that so many commenters on Hacker News who want to believe this storyline are just pretending that it's true despite the lack of evidence.
Agree, on reading the title my immediate thought was it belonged to The Register, but would have been even better as the headline of a satirical takedown from Private Eye or The Onion.
Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please especially don't submit knock-off articles that jack up the linkbait and indignation. That's what we're trying to avoid on Hacker News. There are enough places to get that hit elsewhere.
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