Anthropic is accusing three Chinese companies—Deepseek, Moonshot, and Minimax—of a “coordinated campaign” to steal their AI capabilities through model distillation.
The process of model distillation involves a student model learning the chain of thought from a teacher model, and is usually used to train a company’s slower models with it’s faster ones (for example, this is how Anthropic trained Sonnet using it’s Opus model).
But in this case, overseas AI companies allegedly used a competitors model to train their own.
The entire timeline with a lot more details are in my full YouTube video, linked here.
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