Anthropic, makers of the popular Claude chatbot, has accused its competitors of attacking it by “distilling” its models.
Distillation involves training an AI system by using another, more powerful one, taking its name from the fact that it allows the training of a specific artificial intelligence tool to be reduced down to a smaller size. It can be used as a legitimate technique to improve AI, by allowing researchers to produce similar results using a smaller and more efficient model.
