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I keep seeing people here claim that the Chinese labs aren't distilling US model

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23 Jul
Those bad, bad open source Chinese labs, distilling from Anthropic!

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1v46sqn/those_bad_bad_open_source_chinese_labs_distilling/"> <img alt="Those bad, bad open source Chinese

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23 Jul
Absurd claim: the distilled model outperforms the originals

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1v49zi9/absurd_claim_the_distilled_model_outperforms_the/"> <img alt="Absurd claim: the distilled model

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26 Sept
Probably old news to most, I am new to this, just interesting to me.

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5 May
MTP on strix halo with llama.cpp (PR #22673)

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t4uj9h/mtp_on_strix_halo_with_llamacpp_pr_22673/"> <img alt="MTP on strix halo with llama.cpp (PR #22673)"

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14 Oct
Anyone else notice Chinese model releases slowed way down after distillation protections went in place?

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