> That's the difference between innovating and copying/distilling someone else's innovation.

Aren't the models from Anthropic and OpenAI simply the distilled work of everyone else who ever put their work online, or in books?

Why is their distillation okay, but other distillations not ok?

As opposed to all the copying AI companies have done of everyone else's work, in order to build something that tries to replace and undercuts the people who did that work?

World's smallest violin.

This meme must die, how did Kimi 3 even distill Fable or GPT 5.6 within weeks of their being available?

Also, how a model identifies itself isn't very telling, many models when asked in Chinese will identify as DeepSeek

Or maybe China's math/science/population/gov investment powerhouse is pulling ahead and becoming unstoppable?

I'll link to this comment as a rebuttal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984531

That's an ironic comment to make about LLMs that are heavily reliant on copying/distilling everyone's work (or as Damien Walter puts it, our Collective Intelligence).

This is a cope.