🎙️ EP 353: Anthropic Exposes Model Distillation Campaigns & DeepSeek Drops V4.1 Flash
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Anthropic and U.S. cyber agencies revealed details of industrial-scale distillation operations by major labs to extract proprietary capabilities from Claude models. Meanwhile, DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash, an open-weights Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture designed for long-context agentic reasoning with a drastically reduced KV cache footprint.
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Allegations detailing over 150 million automated queries routed through proxy networks to distill Claude's coding, tool-use…
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