Revisiting the claim: "China is distilling our models"
trikcode · x · 2026-09-13
The author revisits a widely circulated statement: "China is distilling our models, we don't need their validation, if we slow down, they'll automatically slow down" — and wonders whether that's actually the case. It touches the core controversy of distillation and the US-China AI race.
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