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qeternitytoday at 7:58 PM1 replyview on HN

I think it’s fairly obvious the Chinese labs are doing mass distillation.

I also think the Fable accusation is wrong and it was most likely Opus 4.8 which itself is likely a distillation of Fable.


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sailingparrottoday at 10:00 PM

You have it backwards IMHO, obviously can't prove it, but I would bet that Opus was used to bootstrap Fable. It becomes very confusing since we have started calling everything distillation, but most likely what both Anthropic did for Fable and Moonshot did for K3 was using Opus traces in the reasoning SFT stage during mid training.