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devnonymousyesterday at 7:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Are you sure about that ? Because the very next tweet says:

  > Distillation can be legitimate: AI labs use it to create smaller, cheaper models for their customers.

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davidgomesyesterday at 8:08 PM

That's just in reference to the technique itself. They're basically saying it's okay for Google to use distillation to train Gemini N Flash using Gemini N-1 Pro (which they do).