Yacine Questions: How is Model Distillation Possible Without Logits Access?
andganna · x · 2026-07-23
Amid recent industry debates over "model distillation," Yacine tweeted a core question: how are third parties technically achieving distillation when APIs are strictly closed and do not expose logits? He questioned if the meaning of the term has shifted to simply mean "using our AI models to write code."
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