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I have often wondered how exactly external groups distill the frontier models - this is how. By doing this they get the benefits of genuine user prompts (multi -turn, real codebases, human feedback), subsidize the cost of distilling many tokens, and display real usage patterns and behaviours making detection harder.

I have often wondered how exactly external groups distill the frontier models - this is how. By doing this they get the benefits of genuine user prompts (multi-turn, real codebases, human feedback), subsidize the cost of distilling many tokens, and display real usage patterns and behaviours making detection harder.