As Xi Jinping visits President Trump in Washington, the leaders are expected to discuss claims that China is surreptitiously ...

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

Foreign adversaries have been illegally accessing American AI systems to train competing technology, and selling copycat versions at a lower price.

American artificial intelligence companies have accused their Chinese counterparts of using a technique called distillation to enhance their own systems.

US AI companies have accused Chinese firms of using “distillation” to reproduce the capabilities of advanced American models. The issue is expected to come up as Trump and Xi discuss AI and the wider ...

A joint NSA, FBI and CISA advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI over industrial-scale distillation of US frontier AI models since late 2024.

Anthropic warns AI distillation may enhance reasoning but poses security risks. Anthropic has best AI model by September 2026 at 88.5% YES.

A woman holds a cell phone in front of a computer screen displaying the DeepSeek logo (Photo by Artur Widak, NurPhoto via Getty Images) At this month’s Paris AI Summit, the global conversation around ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...