
cnbc.com
September 28, 2026
1 min read
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Summary
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said AI model distillation — models being trained on other models' outputs — is "competition," despite the White House calling it theft. Distillation has become a key flashpoint in tensions between the U.S. and China in their race for AI supremacy. U.S. officials have accused Chinese AI companies of distillation. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described it as "theft" ...