From Silicon Valley to DC, the tech world is suddenly obsessed with one concept in AI: Distillation
However, Anthropic has a different view, because the company sees how its models are being used and has a burgeoning business to protect. In February, the company said its Claude capabilities were being distilled on an "industrial scale" by China's DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, which used about 24,000 fake accounts, generating 16 million exchanges. Anthropic, which is valued at close to $1 trillion and has aspirations of going public in the near future, said stopping illicit distillation was a matter of national security.
- ▪However, Anthropic has a different view, because the company sees how its models are being used and has a burgeoning business to protect.
- ▪In February, the company said its Claude capabilities were being distilled on an "industrial scale" by China's DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, which used about 24,000 fake accounts, generating 16 million exchanges.
- ▪Anthropic, which is valued at close to $1 trillion and has aspirations of going public in the near future, said stopping illicit distillation was a matter of national security.
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However, Anthropic has a different view, because the company sees how its models are being used and has a burgeoning business to protect. In February, the company said its Claude capabilities were being distilled on an "industrial scale" by China's DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, which used about 24,000 fake accounts, generating 16 million exchanges. Anthropic, which is valued at close to $1 trillion and has aspirations of going public in the near future, said stopping illicit distillation was a matter of national security. "Anthropic and other US companies build systems that prevent state and non-state actors from using AI to, for example, develop bioweapons or carry out malicious cyber activities," the company said in its February post.
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