Encrypted Reasoning and Distillation: The Challenge of Protecting Model IP

lbeurerkellner · x · 2026-08-14

The author notes that distillation is the elephant in the room: providers want to protect their chain-of-thought output to prevent competitors from training distilled models. This is relevant if you rely on encrypted reasoning to protect your model IP.

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