Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees at an all-hands last month that the company will not use model distillation to accelerate capabilities (The Information)
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The Information : Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees at an all-hands last month that the company will not use model distillation to accelerate capabilities — ByteDance won't resort to distillation as a shortcut to advancing its AI model capabilities, even if that means …
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