Commenter speculates the model was distilled from Opus and benchmark-maxed later
LucaAmb · x · 2026-07-23
A commenter suggests the model may have been distilled from Opus and then further benchmark-maxed through post-training.
They add that post-training fine-tuning can be extremely time-efficient, implying that much of the apparent jump in performance could come after the base distillation step.
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