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Model distillation practices are widespread across the industry including US companies, undermining the intellectual property theft narrative used to justify sanctions

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"Distillation is common, and US labs do it too. 'We know distillation to be a very small factor,' Hugging Face chief Clem Delangue told TechCrunch. It is, he added, 'a practice that everyone is doing, including companies in the US.'"

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