Chinese LLM progress can't be chalked up to distillation alone, argue AI commentators
tinyfool · x · 2026-09-04
tinyfool endorses a thread by @zhufengme pushing back on the claim that Chinese LLMs owe their success solely to distillation. The argument: as of September 2026, attributing everything to distillation no longer holds up logically, let alone considering the genuine academic and engineering progress behind Chinese models.
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