American A.I. Companies Say Chinese Copycats Are Quickly Catching Up

U.S. companies complain that competitors in China are unfairly copying their A.I. systems using a technique that has been ...

This AI shortcut could destroy the industry's profits

AI distillation threatens top AI firms like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google as rivals use it to replicate cutting-edge models ...
CNBC

How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek roiled markets in January, setting off a massive tech and semiconductor selloff after unveiling AI models that it said were cheaper and more efficient than ...

What is AI distillation and why is it a worry for the industry?

Artificial intelligence companies in the US have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to develop more advanced chatbots, ...

Distillation: The New U.S.–China AI Fight

America's powerful AI models are deemed national security assets, with China accused of stealing them through "distillation." ...
Wired

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...