[dragonwriter]

> Other companies were allegedly distilling the models by training on the reasoning output

In the case of makers of open-source models (which are also competition), there is no allegedly, they were (and still are) openly doing that.

[nullc]

In the case of the closed models too... Claude would happily tell you it was deepseek-v3 if you asked in chinese until it caught public attention and they papered over it.