cant they just use open source deepseek if it already benches better than open ai lol i dont get

1. Everyone has been doing distillation for a long time

2. You ideally want outputs from multiple models, not a single one

3. Distillation (or a model trace) is insufficient on its own (a) you need a sufficiently strong base (b) crafting RL rewards is an art

4. You are conflating DeepSeek with Moonshot (K3)