Artificial Intelligence: China
Commons · Question 28818 · Tabled 10 Sep 2026 · Cabinet Office · Official record
Answered 25 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Ben Spencer
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information her Department holds on the distillation of UK AI models by China.
Answer
Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 25 Sep 2026
Distillation is the practice of training a "student" model to reproduce the capabilities or characteristics of a more capable "teacher" model. Developers commonly distill their own models to produce smaller, cheaper versions, and some ...