This logic works only if distilling Claude is the only way to create another SOTA LLM, which is not the case.
the problem is so large scale that distill attempts attribute to a decent share of their token revenue generally.
Anthropic is offering a commodity product and trying to convince you it isn’t.
It’s even in the name, it’s a myth and a fable. Never happened doesn’t exist.
Also I believe at least on coding that qwen is now the frontier model, fable is its copy of frontier models. In the same way that the Ferrari Luce is an expensive imitation of a SU7 Ultra.
The delusions people live in just to be a hater.
At least the Chinese have the decency of giving back the model weights and not put BS censorship because “it’s too dangerous”.