Open-weight doomers are wrong: there are many ways to gather training data beyond distillation
gnukeith · x · 2026-11-12
Pushing back on claims that open-weight models will suffer as American labs crack down on distillation, gnukeith argues there are many ways to gather training data. He cites Opus 5.5, Ernie 5.5, GLM 5.3 Flash and Qwen 3.8 27B as strong models each with their own use cases, and links several freely available papers on data collection for model training.
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