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The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Beat Rockets & China's #1 Open Model | EP #266
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Model Distillation Explained and the Global Geopolitics of Open AI
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Alex explains distillation; Will warns that open-source fork-able models enable removal of safety guardrails for bioweapons; Dave notes the narrowing window for US export controls. [1] — Alexander Wissner-Gross "Distillation is how a smaller, cheaper model learns from a larger, more expensive one — like a student absorbing a teacher's knowledge. Chi…" 2:06:40
Distillation is how a smaller, cheaper model learns from a larger, more expensive one — like a student absorbing a teacher's knowledge. China's GLM 5.2 almost certainly distilled from Western frontier models. The catch: everyone is doing this, including Google DeepMind, Grok, and Cursor.
