[mike_hearn]

Lack of capital and (probably) lack of willingness to mass distill Anthropic and OpenAI.

[plufz]

What would happen if they mass distilled one of the really large local models like GLM 700b or deepseek 1.6t?

[grim_io]

At that point you might as well just host them yourself.

[sajithdilshan]

That's not how the innovation works

[weezing]

Innovation is teaching your model on stolen data from literally everywhere but other models.

[kelipso]

Innovation is a pretty neutral concept. It doesn’t care about things like “what if my model learns from other models” as opposed to “what if my model learns from data I painfully curated” if the model progresses the same.

[sulam]

Those already exist.