China's AI Distillation Campaigns: A New Era of Model Extraction The latest report from Anthropic has shed light on an escalating threat to the development and deployment of large language models (LLMs).
The alleged distillation attacks by China based companies, including Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek, have significant implications for the global AI landscape.
Distillation is a process where attackers extract the internal workings of an LLM to train smaller models.