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Comment by rfv6723

6 months ago

Distillation is great for researchers and hobbyists.

But nearly all frontier models have anti-distillation ToS, so distillation is out of question for western commercial companies like Apple.

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janalsncm  6 months ago

Even if Apple needs to train an LLM from scratch, they can distill it and deploy on edge devices. From that point, inference is free to them.

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