$80B commercial entity accused of hypocrisy on distillation vs open source
VoidAsuka · x · 2026-08-30
Debate escalates over whether model distillation is just a game of compute and data. A representative from an $80B commercial entity accused an open source project of leveraging hype with deceptive results, noting severe quality degradation compared to the original checkpoint. The opponent retorted that commercial companies take open source models, post-train on user data, and keep them closed behind APIs while complaining about open weight releases.
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