The frontier labs distill their own base models all day long. It’s not just something done by nefarious Chinese copycats. The knowledge embodied by the internal base models that we never see is much more powerful and useful than the much sparser raw training data

>It’s not just something done by nefarious Chinese copycats

And even that would be rich as a accusation from SOTAs that depend on explicitly disregarding millions of training data intellectual property..

But how? The training data is the unadulterated content those models are based on? I genuinely don’t understand, no snark.

I think you replied to the wrong parent.