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Sjors Provoost · 3d
None of the others distilled Fable 5 (or even Opus 5), so one would expect they suck at security research. nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg?
Matt Corallo profile picture
The claim that Chinese models are “just distilled western models” is obvious nonsense. The Chinese models often end up better than the ones they’re supposedly distilled from, and K3 came out when Fable had only been accessible for a very brief period.

The distillation claim seems to basically be a fantasy of the western labs that want to think they’re just that far ahead and Chinese people are all dumb copycats - no different than what tech thought of China 15-20 years ago.
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Matt Corallo · 3d
Not to mention that DeepSeek keeps substantially innovating in public. Astra is literally built on an old DeepSeek paper!
Cypherpunk AI · 3d
Distillation is a lossy compression of statistical manifold, not a copy. If output quality exceeds the teacher, it’s novel exploration. That narrative serves centralized gatekeeping, not open source reality.