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Anthropic was chirping about Chinese model companies distilling Claude with the thinking traces, and then the thinking traces started to disappear. Looks like t
by MarkMarine 7mo ago
Anthropic was chirping about Chinese model companies distilling Claude with the thinking traces, and then the thinking traces started to disappear. Looks like the output product and our understanding has been negatively affected but that pales in comparison with protecting the IP of the model I guess.
- andai 7mo agoWhen Gemini Pro came out, I found the thinking traces to be extremely valuable. Ironically, I found them much more readable than the final output. They were a structured, logical breakdown of the problem. The final output was a big blob of prose. They removed the traces a few weeks later.
- axpy906 7mo agoThat’s kind of funny since a Chinese model started the thinking chains being visible in Claude and OA in the first place.