Jensen Huang calls AI distillation 'competition' amid China model gap debate
cramer4next · hn · 2026-09-28
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that AI distillation—training smaller models on a larger model's outputs—is fundamentally 'competition.' The remarks are read as his response to ongoing debate over the US-China model gap and whether distillation is legitimate. Huang framed cross-model learning and rapid catch-up as a natural feature of a competitive landscape rather than cheating.
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