Elie Bakouch Speculates on Model Distillation

Research engineer Elie Bakouch, who trains LLMs at Prime Intellect after contributing to SmolLM and FineWeb at Hugging Face, posted a reply to user @scaling01. He wrote that he now sees how the point makes more sense yet remains unsure about the matter. Bakouch added that he would think the item is distilled from model 1 or 2 likely. The comment carries a research tag and forms part of visible replies in the conversation.