TECHSTORY 548· AUGUST 4, 2026

Palantir chief renews attacks on frontier AI labs, defends Chinese model training

Artificial intelligence "distillation," the practice of training a smaller model to copy the behavior of a larger one and inherit its capabilities at far lower cost, is at the center of a sharply worded argument. Alex Karp, chief executive…

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