Antirez says the “Chinese frontier models are mostly distillation” story is wrong
antirez · x · 2026-07-25
Antirez warns that defending distillation as a positive force can slide into an incorrect claim that frontier Chinese models are mainly the result of distillation. He argues that this is not true and, in his view, not even possible in the way people are implying.
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