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AMERICA ACCUSES CHINESE AI FIRMS OF “DIGESTING” U.S. AI MODELS

U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials are accusing DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, and three other Chinese AI companies of using a method described as “distillation” to train models based on technology from U.S. companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

According to the allegations, the scale of this activity could be very large and may have been carried out with advance knowledge of the Chinese government.

Washington warns that this is not just about commercial competition. If Chinese models can rapidly absorb capabilities from advanced U.S. AI systems, they could help enhance China’s military capabilities and cyberattacks.

My take: the AI battle is shifting from “who can build better models” to “who can absorb the opponent’s capabilities faster.” If these allegations are proven, this would be a major issue for the technological advantage of U.S. AI companies.

AI competition is getting less about training and more about stealing the shortcut.

Do you think distillation is a normal AI technique, or is it becoming a weapon in the U.S.–China technology war?

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