Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees at an AI team all-hands in July that the company won't use model distillation to accelerate capabilities (The Information)

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ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming informed the company's AI team in July that ByteDance will not use model distillation to speed up AI capability development, opting against this shortcut despite potential benefits.

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