Open models outperform closed ones with fewer refusals, undercutting distillation claims
xeophon · x · 2026-09-29
X user xeophon challenges the claim that open model capabilities come mainly from adversarial distillation: if true, why do open models outperform closed ones with fewer or no refusals? He adds that he has live-streamed his RL runs and open-sourced some environments, yet skeptics still refuse to believe the results.
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