distillation
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Concerns of distillation are largely overblown, according to Florian Brand, research engineer at AI company Prime Intellect.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But distillation is also used for legitimate purposes: Within AI companies, a big, expensive model might be used to train a cheaper, faster one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
According to Anthropic, the campaign was carried out through what are known as "distillation attacks", which extracted answers from a stronger AI model to train a weaker one.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Microsoft says it built the model "from scratch" with "no distillation" of rival models -- a common shortcut that involves copying a competitor's outputs to train a new system more cheaply and quickly.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
The Doctorita rolls her eyes while Nino Carlitos explains distillation.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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