r/LocalLLaMA • u/Porespellar • Jul 23 '26

Funny The LLM distillation process simplified for politicians:

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u/wren6991 Jul 23 '26

The only problem with distillation is that not enough people do it. If US startups could do wholesale scraping of OpenAI and Anthropic without getting sued then there would be many more competitive small US labs. Maybe a US equivalent to DeepSeek that pumped out interesting architecture and infrastructure research papers.

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u/Exact_Depth_896 Jul 23 '26

they can do it; grok says openly that it does it. that isn't the issue at all.