The U.S. says China's AI progress is down to 'distillation.' But is it that clear cut?

Summary

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez argues that China's AI progress cannot be explained by distillation alone, the practice of training a model on another model's outputs. He says Chinese models now beat the best American models on some benchmarks, a gain he attributes to capability developed independently of distillation. U.S. labs and government bodies, including Anthropic and CISA, have accused Chinese companies of distillation-based theft.

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