They don't have demand for the price it would require for inference.
They are definitely distilling it into a much smaller model and ~98% as good, like everybody does.
> They don't have demand for the price it would require for inference.
citation needed. I find it hard to believe; I think there are more than enough people willing to spend $100/Mtok for frontier capabilities to dedicate a couple racks or aisles.
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Some people are speculating that Opus 4.7 is distilled from Mythos due to the new tokenizer (it means Opus 4.7 is a new base model, not just an improved Opus 4.6)