Rumor that Opus 5.5 was distilled from a larger teacher model sparks debate
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-23
Patrick Toulme claimed Opus 5.5 was trained via RSI and distilled from a massive internal 'Ant teacher' model, explaining why it's smaller and cheaper. BLUECOW009 pushed back, comparing the claim to the old Bill Gates supercomputer urban legend and arguing Anthropic likely trains models conventionally. Both are unverified speculation.
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