Silicon Valley is reckoning with an AI development technique that could upend the leaderboard. Distillation is the idea that a small team can make an advanced AI model by extracting knowledge from a ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. In the tech world, distillation began as a benign research idea. It's now morphed into a shadow economy that threatens ...

Foreign competitors have been accessing American AI systems to train competing technology — a process called distillation — and selling copycat versions at a lower price. Anthropic is trying to crack ...