US Officials Accuse DeepSeek, Moonshot and Alibaba of Industrial-Scale Distillation

VraserX · x · 2026-09-11

US officials have accused DeepSeek, Moonshot and Alibaba of copying American frontier models through industrial-scale distillation. The author notes this fight will get philosophically messy: if learning from another model's outputs is theft, we need a much clearer definition of what models are allowed to learn from.

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