US agencies accuse 6 Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale distillation; Jensen Huang defends distillation
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-09
Two linked items:
- The allegation (main post): Per a retweeted report, the NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly published advisory AA26-251A naming six Chinese AI firms — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI — of running industrial-scale distillation campaigns against US frontier models since at least late 2024. Details await the official text and responses from the named companies.
- Jensen Huang's take (quoted post): In an Axios interview, Huang argued that distillation and learning from AI, from people, and from other knowledge sources is fundamental to intelligence: "All day long, we are learning from one another. AI also has to learn from something." He noted original models were trained on previously created internet knowledge, and AI now generates more content than humans.
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