US Alarmed by AI Encirclement, Claims Six Chinese Firms Engaged in Illicit Distillation

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The United States is growing increasingly anxious about China's rapid advances in artificial intelligence. In a report released on the 10th, US AI startup Anthropic accused Chinese actors of illicitly accessing its cutting-edge model Claude and using the high-performance model to train new models through a process known as distillation. The Trump administration has also claimed that six Chinese companies, including Moonshot AI, have engaged in illicit distillation, saying it was "highly likely carried out with the knowledge of the Chinese government." China's AI players, meanwhile, are seeking to expand adoption by offering low-cost open AI models whose technology is publicly available and can be modified, and the Chinese government has pushed back, saying that "distillation is a commonly used technique." The US and China agreed at a May summit to establish a new official dialogue on AI, but ahead of a planned US-China summit on the 24th, the two sides are deepening their rift over a new axis of conflict centered on distillation.

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The Trump administration named Moonshot AI among six Chinese firms accused of illicitly distilling Anthropic's Claude model, exposing it to potential US regulatory or legal action.

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