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		nicce 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth o... > The Chinese labs have shown that distillation is incredibly effective, but the major US frontier labs haven’t (yet) been incentivized to shrink their models in the same way Have they, actually? A lots of speculation and claims but what is the level of admittance?
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albrewer 10 days ago [–]

Qwen 3.8-27B being on par with Opus 4.6 from ~18 months earlier is a sort of case in point, right?

codethief 10 days ago | [–]

You mean from ~8 months ago? https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

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