Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, have urged the Trump administration not to ban US access to Chinese open-weight AI models. They argue a ban would harm US startups by increasing costs and benefiting major US AI labs, while the White House discusses potential safeguards and theft allegations.
Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging US policymakers not to impose broad restrictions on open-weight AI models. This comes as Washington debates responses to alleged Chinese AI intellectual property theft and growing capabilities, with concerns over potential bans on Chinese open-weight models.
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of building its Kimi K3 LLM by copying Anthropic's Fable and using export-banned Nvidia chips. Experts are skeptical about the distillation claims, while the chip allegations highlight black market concerns.
A White House official accused China's Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable AI model to develop Kimi K3, raising concerns about IP theft and covert use of US technology. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned of potential sanctions, though some AI researchers question the technical feasibility given the release timelines.
BTS's "Arirang" tour in London showcased the K-pop group's immense global success, blending artistic performance with commercial elements. The spectacle, featuring pyro and fan engagement, highlighted the band's connection with their fervent "Army" fanbase, despite potential cynical interpretations of the operation.
US tech firm Anthropic has embedded code in its AI models to identify and block Chinese users, citing national security concerns. The company accuses Alibaba of a massive "distillation attack" to clone its AI capabilities.
Anthropic accuse Alibaba d'avoir « siphonné » ses modèles d'IA via une attaque par distillation, générant des millions d'échanges frauduleux. En réaction, l'administration américaine a imposé des restrictions strictes sur la diffusion des modèles d'IA avancés d'Anthropic et OpenAI, marquant une nouvelle ère de guerre froide technologique.
Anthropic claims Alibaba-affiliated operators used 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, urging Congress to strengthen AI protections and calling the attack a national security issue.
Microsoft is selling OpenAI's advanced AI models to major Chinese tech firms like ByteDance, despite US warnings about China's AI capabilities. This business, growing rapidly in China, generates over $1 billion annually from customers like ByteDance, raising concerns about intellectual property theft and model distillation.
A report by Semafor suggests a China-linked group may have accessed Anthropic's Mythos AI model, potentially influencing US export restrictions on the company's latest AI systems. Concerns over national security risks and AI replication capabilities are cited.
Un aveu d’Elon Musk lors de son procès contre OpenAI a relancé le débat sur la «distillation de connaissance», cette technique permettant d’entraîner une intelligence artificielle à partir d’une autre.
Elon Musk testified in federal court that his AI company xAI partly used OpenAI models to train its Grok chatbot through 'distillation,' a practice under growing scrutiny. The admission came during Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman, alleging the company moved away from its original nonprofit mission. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and left in 2018.
In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a "teacher" of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller […]
Elon Musk testified in a California federal court that xAI has used distillation techniques on OpenAI models to train Grok, calling it a 'general practice among AI companies.' Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman over the organization's shift from nonprofit to for-profit structure. The admission highlights how even leading AI labs allegedly use each other's work to remain competitive, despite public opposition to such practices by Chinese firms.
The administration of Donald Trump has threatened action to shield the US artificial intelligence industry from being “distilled” by Chinese rivals, in a move analysts say could weed out weaker players in China’s AI sector within a year. In a memo released on Thursday, Michael Kratsios, the science and technology adviser to the US president, warned that “surreptitious, unauthorised distillation campaigns” were enabling foreign entities – mainly in China – to release models that appear to match...
The US is preparing to crack down on China's alleged industrial-scale theft of American AI intellectual property through distillation attacks. White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios warned in a memo that foreign entities principally based in China are using tens of thousands of proxy accounts to distill US frontier AI systems. Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI have all accused Chinese firms of using distillation to clone their models. China has dismissed the accusations as pure slander, while Congress considers treating model extraction as industrial espionage.
L’exécutif américain affirme disposer de «preuves» que Pékin mène des campagnes de «distillation à l’échelle industrielle» pour voler les technologies américaines.
The Pachpadra refinery project in Rajasthan has suffered a fire in its main Crude Distillation Unit, forcing the postponement of its inauguration. The incident marks the latest setback for the long-delayed, Rs 79,459 crore joint venture between HPCL and the state government.
