Speculation: China still distilling frontier models implies weights weren't stolen
menhguin · x · 2026-09-20
A user argues that if Chinese labs are still trying to distill frontier US models, that suggests they haven't stolen the weights — having the weights would remove any need to distill, since inference could run internally. He concedes serving a Fable-tier model at scale is infeasible, but internal inference would suffice. Unverified industry speculation.
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