Distillation is a much more compute-efficient process than training models from scratch. It allows China to build much better models than its number of chips would ordinarily enable, and thus partially evade chip bans.
蒸馏是绕过芯片封锁的技术后门——用少量算力从强模型中提取知识。达里奥明确说蒸馏不能让中国追上前沿，只能将差距缩短至「数月以内」。这解释了为什么 Anthropic 开始封禁疑似蒸馏账号，也说明了为什么他要求专门针对工业级蒸馏的政策，而非笼统禁止开放权重。