Chinese AI labs are now treating distillation obfuscation as the top research topic
pmddomingos · x · 2026-07-22
The post claims the top research topic in Chinese AI labs right now is distillation obfuscation.
It is a terse but notable signal about where local labs think the next leverage point is: techniques around distillation, and how to hide or obscure it, are now central enough to be called the number one topic.
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