It looks like the US government might be getting a little more serious about tackling the growth and development of foreign AI companies, judging by a White House memo seen by the Financial Times. The memo reportedly says:
"The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems."
The White House will apparently share information about all this with other American AI companies and help them coordinate against these operations.
Distillation, in the context of AI, is the process of training a model based on the outputs of a more advanced one, so it can learn how to replicate it. The Financial Times reported earlier in the year that Anthropic had accused DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of "industrial-...
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