“This is not in my top ten list of worries”: What Sam Altman thinks about model distillation
The New Stack Amanda Caswell
Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that model distillation by competitors is not a significant concern for OpenAI, arguing the company's scale and usage volume matter more than protecting high profit margins. He cited OpenAI's own distillation practices to create cheaper smaller models and noted that OpenAI's offerings remain superior value compared to alternatives like Kimi K3 even after the competitor's distillation efforts. Altman's comments suggest OpenAI's competitive strategy relies on maintaining technological advantage and scale rather than preventing others from extracting capabilities from its models.
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Sam Altman’s latest appearance on Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Invest Like the Best podcast covered everything from AGI and robotics to the The post “This is not in my top ten list of worries”: What Sam Altman thinks about model distillation appeared first on The New Stack.
