Comment by calebkaiser

OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures just this week posted this about the latest Kimi release: "It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that."

It was part of a longer post that kicked off quite a firestorm about open models and OpenAI's position on them, but it's also notable that labs are no longer contending that open models are essentially just distilled versions of frontier models: https://x.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412