distillation

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“It’s hard to say how much distillation matters for the Chinese AI models,” Chan said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

The distillation attacks — attempts to maliciously extract the intellectual property of a high-performing AI model — come at a pivotal moment for Anthropic and the AI industry at large.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

What’s stopping any AI lab — not just DeepSeek, MiniMax and Moonshot — from doing the same kind of distillation?

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

Earlier this month, an Anthropic rival, OpenAI, sent a memo to House lawmakers accusing DeepSeek of using the same tactic, called distillation, to mimic OpenAI’s products.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond