Schmidhuber backs open-source model distillation and cites his 1991 work
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-26
- Jürgen Schmidhuber says he supports open-source models distilling from what commercial companies already distilled for free from the public internet.
- He adds that he published work on distillation for free in 1991 in Europe, and argues the idea was later copied in the US and China.
- The post is less a product update than a pointed reminder of the long-running open-source vs. proprietary debate in AI.
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