As top models get distilled everywhere, one post asks why frontier training still pays
0xsachi · x · 2026-07-27
The post argues that value may no longer accrue to the model layer itself.
The reasoning is that the best models will be distilled by both open and closed companies, which raises the question of why anyone should still spend millions or billions training frontier models from scratch.
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