Anthropic closed the distillation tap; open labs must learn to make their own data
casper_hansen_ · x · 2026-10-30
Casper Hansen argues Anthropic has shut off the distillation channel, and while open-model labs have shifted to distilling from OpenAI, that tap will close too. His prediction: the capability gap widens until open labs figure out how to create good training data entirely on their own.
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