Distillation has long been a topic for AI wonks, but it's become a hot-button issue of late as techies and lawmakers debate how it should be regulated.

The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, has said distillation will not be used to train the company’s AI models. This differentiates the company from other Chinese AI labs that have been accused of ...

Learn how AI model distillation makes smaller models cheaper and why the technique is fueling disputes over competition, copyright, and data use.

OpenAI believes outputs from its artificial intelligence models may have been used by Chinese startup DeepSeek to train its new open-source model that impressed many observers and shook U.S. financial ...

What if the most powerful artificial intelligence models could teach their smaller, more efficient counterparts everything they know—without sacrificing performance? This isn’t science fiction; it’s ...

A woman holds a cell phone in front of a computer screen displaying the DeepSeek logo (Photo by Artur Widak, NurPhoto via Getty Images) At this month’s Paris AI Summit, the global conversation around ...

A technique that allows developers to shrink powerful artificial intelligence models into cheaper, more efficient systems has become the latest battleground in the intensifying U.S.-China race for AI ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Pierre Bienaimé: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, February 6th. I'm ...

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok known for short-form videos, has declared it will not use the “distillation method” in artificial intelligence (AI) development, drawing global tech industry ...

Distillation is one of the oldest methods of water treatment and is still in use today, though not commonly as a home treatment method. It can effectively remove many contaminants from drinking water, ...