AI Security18 October 2026
Anthropic's investor figures put a number on model distillation: 5–7% of revenue
Anthropic has reportedly told investors that distillation, where rival labs train on a stronger model's outputs, accounted for 5–7% of its revenue before a Q3 cutback. For security teams, that makes model extraction a measured commercial risk.
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AI Governance & Supply Chain24 July 2026
Distillation, Fair Use, and the Open-Weight Model Land Grab
A Ben Thompson proposal to legalise AI distillation, surfaced by Simon Willison, lands the same week Alibaba and Moonshot pushed out trillion-parameter open-weight models — and raises real questions for anyone doing AI vendor due diligence.
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