Schmidhuber jokes that open-source models are now distilling from commercial AI

SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-24

A meme post extending the long-running “distillation” joke: commercial AI companies are said to have distilled from the entire internet, while open-source models are now distilling from those commercial models. The image frames the lineage as a three-step chain: Schmidhuber → commercial AI companies → open-source models.

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