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Beijing tries to reframe the distillation debate

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Beijing has started pushing back against US characterizations of AI model distillation. What happened: On July 27, China's commerce ministry (MofCom) made formal statements addressing US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent remarks which characterize distillation as IP theft. ICYDK: "Distillati...