China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models
The source of those allegations was Donald Trump’s Assistant for Science and Technology, Michael Kratsios, whose stance was backed by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The Ministry’s response to the Trump administration’s allegations re-uses those arguments. It then suggests that Chinese AI companies didn’t have enough time to distill the latest frontier models, because the US companies that developed them released them mere days before Chinese companies published their own code.
- ▪The source of those allegations was Donald Trump’s Assistant for Science and Technology, Michael Kratsios, whose stance was backed by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The Ministry’s response to the Trump administration’s allegations re-uses those arguments.
- ▪It then suggests that Chinese AI companies didn’t have enough time to distill the latest frontier models, because the US companies that developed them released them mere days before Chinese companies published their own code.
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