No Covert Distillation: European AI Can't Beat Qwen2.5 3B Even With Logits
MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-07-23
Author strongly refutes recent claims that Moonshot AI covertly distilled Anthropic's models at an industrial scale to develop its K3 model, calling the concept of "large-scale, covert industrial distillation" non-existent.
He argues that even if the logits from top-tier models were handed over, most European AI companies still couldn't build a 3B model capable of beating Qwen2.5. Acknowledging the difficulty, he urges the industry to be fair and give credit where it is due for China's open-source advancements.
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