> It only costs millions or tens of millions to distill a near frontier model like GLM 5.2. This is interesting let's say we distill *Opus 4.8*, 4:1 (more input for well-specified synthetic data). You get ≈27M tokens/$100. 270B for $1M. For $4M, you have a whole 1T! Worth it.
Marcus Abramovitch@marcusabramovi1
Whats the reason that only China distills American models when there is all this talk about Europe and other Middle powers losing their power? It only costs millions or tens of millions to distill a near frontier model like GLM 5.2.
10:16 AM · Jun 22, 2026 · 5K Views
