Anthropic accused three Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises of engaging in coordinated distillation campaigns, the latest American tech firm to do so.

Top United States artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is accusing three prominent Chinese AI labs of illegally extracting capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own, claiming it raises national security concerns.

The AI industry is witnessing a transformative trend: the use of distillation to make AI models smaller and cheaper. This shift, spearheaded by companies like DeepSeek and OpenAI, is reshaping the AI models market and redefining the application of AI ...

Just ask DeepSeek Two of the world's biggest AI companies, Google and OpenAI, both warned this week that competitors including China's DeepSeek are probing their models to steal the underlying reasoning,

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 American ones. But the underlying fears and ...

Leading AI labs frequently release both their most advanced models and smaller versions, with the latter often partially created through distillation. Authorized model distillation has broad applications, including enhancing efficiency for edge computing and adapting models for specialized domains, such as life sciences.

Model distillation is one of the technology trends that has reached a level of maturity identified in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for artificial intelligence (AI) as “the slope of enlightenment”. However, while it was recently put into the spotlight at ...