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timcobb • today at 10:56 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Do people distil open weights models? Why?


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largbae • today at 11:28 AM

Yes, to make training data for other models. You can distill to get better at something the source model is good at, perhaps it has more training data in a language that you want to support better. Also large open weight models are a great source of training data for smaller models.