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China\'s rapid AI progress credited to \'distillation\' but is that the whole story?

Pushback is growing within the U.S. AI industry against the view that Chinese AI model advances can be explained solely by “distillation,” a method of training models using outputs from more advanced systems. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez said China has built strong capabilities beyond copying and distillation and that some recent Chinese models have outperformed top U.S. models on certain benchmarks. U.S. agencies and Anthropic have alleged industrial-scale illegal distillation, while China has rejected those claims.