Reflection Beam and Mistral Large 4 hit GLM-5.2 level, sparking distillation gap debate
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-10-07
Yuchen Jin notes that Reflection's Beam and Mistral Large 4 both reached roughly GLM-5.2-level performance within two days.
He proposes a provocative explanation for the Western vs. Chinese open-source gap: Chinese labs can distill Anthropic and OpenAI models, while Western labs can't. This is unverified personal speculation.
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