Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls AI model distillation "competition," contradicts Treasury Secretary Bessent's "theft" claim amid U.S.-China tensions over Chinese firms training models on American AI outputs.

Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' Scott Bessent has called it 'theft'

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" in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies that use it to extract capability from U.S...