Debate on model strategy: focusing on distillation defense may hurt frontier model building
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-10-17
Responding to a Martin Casado idea debated with Gavin Baker, mattslotnick argues an org fixated on distillation-related strategy rather than end usage would struggle to build the best models, and that those distilling from you have incentives to leverage customer relationships instead. Casado calls it interesting but likely non-optimal.
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