10 stories tagged model-distillation, newest first.
21 points by porridgeraisin | 38 comments
Anthropic research post dated Oct 12, 2026 describing how the company is strengthening defenses against distillation attacks on its models.
300 points by allisdust | 269 comments
A blog post arguing about the Western vs. Chinese AI lab race, discussing Anthropic's claims that Chinese labs are distilling its models.
54 points by tgluck | 8 comments
Documentation post for Jevstiller, a tool that distills the Jev classification API into a local model, explaining its 98% agreement rate and disagreement guarantee.
43 points by cramer4next | 25 comments
CNBC article reporting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calling AI model distillation 'competition,' contrasting with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling it 'theft.'
360 points by TheJCDenton | 192 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models.
665 points by quantumgarbage | 295 comments
Project page for a research paper on extracting hidden reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, by authors from MATS, ELLIS, Max Planck and Tübingen.
721 points by htrp | 1164 comments
News article reporting that Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly accessing Claude to extract its AI model capabilities.
480 points by rarisma | 416 comments
The Verge news article reporting that Anthropic apologized for hidden Claude Fable safeguards against model distillation and will make them as visible as other safety measures.
712 points by HenryNdubuaku | 206 comments
GitHub repository for Needle, an MIT-licensed 26M-parameter function-calling model distilled from Gemini, designed to run on phones and other small devices.
645 points by timsuchanek | 1445 comments
Financial Times article reporting OpenAI's claim that it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its models to train a competing AI model.