The AI industry is witnessing a transformative trend: the use of distillation to make AI models smaller and cheaper. This shift, spearheaded by companies like DeepSeek and OpenAI, is reshaping the AI ...
Microsoft researchers have developed On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a training method that permanently embeds ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...
OpenAI and Anthropic allege improper distillation of their models. Investors have pushed Chinese AI valuations sky-high anyway—raising a harder question about pricing power.