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 retinaros on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:39PM (#49424095)

Nothing against what I said in there. Distillation is far from enough to get to the frontier. Its at best a ramp (the most efficient one used by everyone ) that shortcut and saves millions of rl runs before a model moves.

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by dbbk on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:29PM (#49426094)

You said there isn't evidence of distillation. Yes there is

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by retinaros on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:59AM (#49433270)

I said there is no evidence distillation is all you need as per the initial comment "The fact that AI models can be so easily distilled and replicated is such a stroke of luck." it is far from trivial to reproduce the capabilities of anthropic models for instance

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by wolvoleo on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:47PM (#49426891)

And probably saves a lot of energy which would be good for the planet

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by JacobAsmuth on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:45PM (#49427356)

"No evidence" -> Large lab saying that they use distillation when training their models

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by retinaros on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:15AM (#49432648)

the initial post infers that distillation is all you need. it is not. in 2026 you need large scale distributed inference of gigantic models, rl envs and millions of dollars runs to get to something decent. if you think glm just has to sft on traces of claude to edge Mythos on some cyber benchmark you are fooled.

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