Hidden CoT and failing distillation: open-weight models set to fall further behind frontier labs
toptickcrypto · x · 2026-09-29
Quoting @FundaAI: the latest Anthropic, OpenAI and Google models no longer expose full chains of thought in plaintext, making distillation less effective — open-weight developers must now invest in their own RL, synthetic data and training environments, all compute-hungry. The author adds that frontier internal capabilities are accelerating while Western labs deploy multiples more effective compute than Chinese labs, so the closed vs open-weight gap will keep widening.
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