黄仁勋称人工智能蒸馏即是“竞争”。

黄仁勋称人工智能蒸馏即是“竞争”。
Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'

原始链接: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidias-jensen-huang-ai-distillation-china.html

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has weighed in on the contentious debate surrounding AI model distillation—the practice of training new models on the outputs of existing ones. While U.S. officials and agencies, including the Treasury Department and CISA, have branded the practice as “industrial-scale theft” and threatened sanctions against Chinese firms like Alibaba and DeepSeek, Huang characterizes it simply as “competition.” Drawing a parallel to how companies routinely reverse-engineer Nvidia’s hardware, Huang argued that testing and learning from others' products is a natural part of the market. He suggested that if companies want to prevent their technology from being studied, they should restrict access to their services rather than expecting external regulation. While firms like Anthropic have accused Chinese developers of “illicit distillation,” Huang maintains that competitive pressure ultimately drives improvement. Despite the White House’s increasingly aggressive stance against the practice, Huang’s comments highlight a significant divide between governmental security concerns and the pragmatic, often cutthroat, realities of tech industry competition.

原文

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.-built models.

But, when asked if distillation was "not robbery," Huang told CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday: "That's called competition."

"You're allowed to test somebody else's products all you want," he said, adding that Nvidia's products are sometimes stripped "down to bones" as companies tried to learn how they worked.

"I'd really prefer they didn't," he said. "I'd really prefer that nobody learns from our products, and we have the benefit of just cruising along. But, you know, frankly, competition makes everything better."

"If you don't like that, if you don't like people to use your products, all you [have to do is] know your customers, and disable the service," Huang said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.

Earlier this month, the U.S.' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, accused China's AI companies of conducting "industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns" that violated U.S. companies' terms of use.

Anthropic said earlier this month that it found Alibaba, which develops the Qwen family of models, and DeepSeek both engaging in "illicit distillation."

China has rejected the claims.

黄仁勋称人工智能蒸馏即是“竞争”。 Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'

黄仁勋称人工智能蒸馏即是“竞争”。
Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'