OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by colingauvin on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:58PM (#49422657)

I'm saying that it is unclear that without distillation this wouldn't still be happening. There is a massive narrative that no one but OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can make a model without distilling. But there's basically no evidence of that.

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by byzantinegene on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:50PM (#49428181)

I think the (non-definitive) evidence is that the chinese models are always just slightly behind the publically released US models, and never ahead.

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by sebzim4500 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:09PM (#49439917)

I think it's more that distilling is enormously cheaper than training from scratch to achieve the same results

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