🔥 OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google share intelligence through the Frontier Model Forum to respond to AI model distillation

According to 1M AI News monitoring, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information through the industry nonprofit organization Frontier Model Forum to jointly detect adversarial distillation activities that violate terms of service. The organization was jointly founded by the aforementioned three companies and Microsoft in 2023. Distillation is a technique that trains a new model using the outputs of existing models to replicate capabilities. AI companies commonly use distillation to create smaller, more efficient versions of models, but unauthorized third-party distillation is controversial. OpenAI confirmed its participation in the collaboration and cited a memorandum it submitted to the U.S. Congress, stating that DeepSeek is attempting to freeload on OpenAI and its…