Doubao stands out in Arena model-similarity analysis, sparking distillation debate
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-13
An Arena-based similarity analysis of model responses shows Doubao behaving distinctly from other leading models. The author argues this is largely a good-vs-crap-models gap and doubts OpenAI distilled Claude for the model, since decent modern models aren't far from Claude anyway.
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