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		rfv6723 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique an... Distillation is great for researchers and hobbyists. But nearly all frontier models have anti-distillation ToS, so distillation is out of question for western commercial companies like Apple.

janalsncm 35 days ago [–]

Even if Apple needs to train an LLM from scratch, they can distill it and deploy on edge devices. From that point, inference is free to them.

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