Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 commit fuels distillation claims as labs dodge audits
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-11
A commit message from Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 has fueled claims that the company distilled from open-source models, ironic given the community narrative that targets Chinese labs. Commenters note that frontier labs essentially can't be audited for distillation — they can freely download open models from Hugging Face, complete with tech reports, whenever they need them.
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