@Miles_Brundage: I am not sure I have seen a good analysis of how much distillation reduces this gap - people have very different views …
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Miles Brundage comments on the lack of quantitative analysis on how distillation affects the capability gap between open-weight and proprietary AI models, referencing a claim by Epoch AI that open-weight models lag by four months.
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I am not sure I have seen a good analysis of how much distillation reduces this gap - people have very different views on this, but they are rarely justified quantitatively (unless I missed something)
Not a comment on Epoch’s thing, just a general one https://t.co/S9aKqaoNE5
Epoch AI (@EpochAIResearch): We took another look at the capability gap between open-weight and proprietary models. Since the start of the year, open-weight models have lagged the state of the art by four months.
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