🎯 Distillation

The items that name it 17

• Meta’s AI-distilled model detector catches 79% at a 0.1% false-positive rate
  article2026-10-30

  Training a student model on responses collected from a teacher model through its API, the copying scenario WM-Basin targets.

• How Anthropic ships Claude with Claude: Separating the Brain from the Hands
  talk2026-10-27
• Building Reasoning Models from the Ground Up: A Video Course
  course2026-10-24
• Rodrigo ES Porto (@RodrigoESPorto) on X
  thread2026-10-16
• Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO
  article2026-10-15
• Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks
  article2026-10-12

  Generating millions of responses from a larger model and using them to teach a smaller model to mimic its behavior. Illicit distillation does this without the developer's authorization, often via networks of fraudulent accounts.

• OpenAI Banned PewDiePie Twice While He Built Ajax, an Uncensored AI That Will Run on Your PC
  article2026-10-03
• OpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden Reasoning
  article2026-10-01
• Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI
  talk2026-09-22
• The current balance of power in open models
  article2026-09-21
• Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI
  article2026-09-19
• [tl;dr sec] #346 - Can AI Do Novel Security Research?, Anthropic's Threat Intel Report, How Cloudflare Enforces Engineering Standards
  article2026-09-17

  Harvesting model outputs, including chain-of-thought, to train other models, as Anthropic reports by PRC labs using proxy farms.

• Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List
  article2026-09-11
• GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
  article2026-08-14
• 5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)
  article2026-08-10
• Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
  talk2026-07-22It is written here as Distillation (via jailbroken APIs).

  via jailbroken APIs

• 6 months to live for open models
  article2026-07-12

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