[nl]

Even Anthropic hasn't claimed "Kimi is largely a byproduct of distillation"

There's been some distillation.

Just like how Elon said in court they distill to make Grok.

[FinchNova12]

I thought there is discussion circulating around whether the main reason Kimi is impressive is due to distillation. Though possibly if this occurred, this was just one component of their training pipeline and not a majority