Artificial intelligence companies in the US have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to develop more advanced chatbots, ...

US AI companies allege Chinese firms are using AI distillation to build rival models. Here's what the practice means and why it has become a flashpoint.

America's powerful AI models are deemed national security assets, with China accused of stealing them through "distillation." ...

Leading U.S. artificial intelligence companies are quietly deploying increasingly aggressive measures to prevent Chinese ...

Anthropic's allegations against Alibaba have put AI distillation in focus. Here's how the technique works, why it's ...

Anthropic alleged that Alibaba-affiliated operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million Claude ...

Anthropic's China tracking experiment has exposed a much larger US-China AI battle, as American firms race to stop rivals ...

In a letter obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Anthropic alleged that Alibaba and its AI unit conducted “the largest known ...

Anthropic alleges Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million Claude interactions to extract advanced AI ...

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”.

What if the most powerful artificial intelligence models could teach their smaller, more efficient counterparts everything they know—without sacrificing performance? This isn’t science fiction; it’s ...