This AI shortcut could destroy the industry's profits
THE SO WHAT
If distillation lets rivals cheaply approximate frontier models, then the defensible layer shifts from raw model weights to data, distribution, and integration into workflows. Buyers should expect more aggressive pricing and licensing experiments, and vendors need to assume that pure-model IP margins will compress over time.
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