Distillation means a frontier pause still pushes Astra-grade models to $0.3/1M tokens
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to Nathan Lambert's take that Ant & OpenAI pausing would benefit open source, the author argues a frontier pause doesn't freeze prices: both could continually distill and optimize smaller models, serving Astra-grade quality at $0.3/1M output tokens within six months while keeping margins — a dynamic that hurts open-source more than it helps.
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