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distillation

[dis-tl-ey-shuhn] / ˌdɪs tlˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
distillate
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The White House on Wednesday alleged that Moonshot used responses from Fable to help train K3 in a process called model distillation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Kratsios said Moonshot built "a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large-scale distillation against U.S. models," which allowed the company "to quickly switch between multiple methods of access to avoid detection."

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

Concerns of distillation are largely overblown, according to Florian Brand, research engineer at AI company Prime Intellect.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

According to Anthropic, the campaign was carried out through what are known as "distillation attacks", which extracted answers from a stronger AI model to train a weaker one.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

All she felt was the approach, the closing-in, the dread, the dread that was as pure a distillation of fear as any emotion Isagol had ever made.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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