After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 spurred multi-vector allegations of model distillation, China’s AI labs are apparently becoming a lot more sensitive to this issue, with TikTok owner ByteDance becoming the second such AI lab to explicitly ban distillation from US models. Meanwhile, Anthropic has just confirmed that it’s working on a dedicated ASIC for Claude, potentially extending its inference-related economies of scale. China’s ByteDance commits it won’t resort to distillation as a shortcut for advancing its AI models For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model jumped right into the ongoing multi-dimensional struggle between China […]
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