Why Do (Some) Chinese AI Labs Distill? - by Kevin Xu
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And why the Mythos/Fable drama doesn’t matter here
Ever since Anthropic released its report in February on three Chinese AI labs distilling its advanced models to train their own, I have been thinking a lot about adversarial distillation. I carried my thoughts to China, when I recently visited most of the leading labs there, including the three being accused. I tracked how the issue has evolved quickly into action and legislative proposals in Washington. I have monitored (the situation) of a growing narrative uttered by many that China, the entire country, distills (coded for steals) to make progress in AI, not three labs out of many from…
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