distillation
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Some critics argue Anthropic itself has built models through a process that resembles distillation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Earlier this year Anthropic sent letters to US lawmakers warning about the practice, formally accusing Chinese firms Moonshot, DeepSeek and MiniMax of industrial-scale distillation of its Claude models.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
In June, Anthropic accused Chinese e-commerce and tech giant Alibaba of "illicitly" extracting the capabilities of its Claude AI models using distillation attacks.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
In light of Kimi K3, some researchers including OpenAI executive Dean Ball said distillation no longer explained the rapid advances of Chinese models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
When I get home I work with Quang-ha on his biology- I give him a single-page document with a distillation of what he should know for his upcoming test.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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