The United States and China, locked in an artificial intelligence (AI) competition, are currently grappling with a specific AI training method known as "distillation." Distillation involves feeding ...

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Foreign adversaries have been illegally accessing American AI systems to train competing technology, and selling copycat versions at a lower price.

Y Combinator chief Garry Tan argues that Western regulators should ignore Chinese distillation methods and prioritize open weight parity.

AI distillation is at the centre of a new US-China technology dispute. Here's how the technique works, why it can reduce AI development costs and what Washington and Beijing say about its use.