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Distilling from another lab's model is standard industry practice, not cheating; who you distill from just depends on whether you have products to protect.

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  1. Nathan Lambert Machine-learning researcher on open language models
    Distillation is standard practice in industry. Whether or not, if you're at a closed lab where you care about terms of service and IP closely, you distill from your own models.

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