Model distillation infuriates America, but may end up holding China back C onsider a water-skier. Surfing in the wake of a speedboat, they may at times go faster than the vessel pulling them along—but they never overtake it. Lately some experts have turned to this analogy to describe China’s race with America for supremacy in artificial intelligence.
They suggest that the impressive progress of Chinese labs largely relies on the pace of their American peers pushing out the frontier. If America speeds up, so might China. If America were to throttle down, Chinese labs would slow too.
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