It's much easier to distill a model than create one from scratch. Part of the reason the open source model factories have been able to keep par with the frontier model factories is that they distill the frontier models, not recreate something as good from scratch.
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It's much easier to distill a model than create one from scratch. Part of the reason the open source model factories have been able to keep par with the frontier model factories is that they distill the frontier models, not recreate something as good from scratch.