GPT — Field Evidence
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Field note
Unpopular(?) opinion. The distillation claim is overblown. — There are people on twitter/X saying that Chinese models are as good as they are only due to distillation (source: https://x.com/scaling01/status/2079332469501727052 ). I don't buy that even for a minute. While the
collected 2026-07-21original 2026-07-21
Does this shift the US–China race?
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Impact on the index
Regulation · major
US -110China +30
Directional contribution — before recency decay and per-type diminishing returns. How it works →
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U.S. FrontiervsChina Open-Weight
Likely — capability gap narrowing on common tasks
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