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Comment by MangoCoffee

3 hours ago

>Musk admitted to distilling their models.

what's the moat for AI labs like OpenAI and Antrhopic as they seek trillion IPOs. a lot of people said Chinese models also distill US LLM models. if it is this easy to do. how do US AI labs justify asking for trillion?

Well, they will stop releasing their latest models, and just attempt to eat all software themselves.

Otherwise, it will be competitors distilling, and the government getting upset.

It's hard for me to see a different future.

And, this really sucks.

If this thesis is true, I wonder what the final YC batch number might be.

Distilling merely saves an expensive part of the process: hundreds of millions. So even if distilling wasn't a thing, what justifies trillions ?