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Alibaba Queried Anthropic's Claude 29 Million Times. It Still Can’t Copy it *period

Alibaba queried Anthropic's Claude 29 million times in a black-box distillation attempt, revealing that while such methods can replicate some capabilities, they fail to fully copy the original model's performance, highlighting both the effectiveness and limitations of distillation.

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