model distillation

3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2025 by Mike Krieger · across every show →

Everything said about model distillation, oldest first

Mar 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krieger: AI Labs Use Internal Distillation to Reduce Latency and Costs
“Even, like, let's take within the labs, like, I assume every single one of the labs is using, like, even within themselves, like, it is very valuable to be able to take, you know, the knowledge of your highest-end model and then be able to make it higher, you …”
Mike Krieger Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 28:44 Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
O'Driscoll: Chinese AI models rely on distillation illegal in the US
“Maybe it's because the dirty little secret is a lot of their advantage is distillation, which you can't legally do if you're US-based.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 23, 2026 ▶ 17:27 Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
Aug 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Atallah: Most Chinese open-weight models permit distillation for reinforcement learning
“The nice thing about the open weight models and the Chinese models that they allow distillation and they like most of them. And that means that you can like take the outputs of these models to do reinforcement learning on top of the model that you're building.”
Alex Atallah Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 55:08 OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
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