Will Knight(@willknight):SCOOP: New researcher reveals how the "secret" reasoning traces of several models can be recovered using a weaker (and less aligned) version of the same model. It suggests that some models, including Kimi 3, may well have been distilled from Claude and GPT traces, although as I explain this doesn't mean the model is "copied".

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Will Knight@willknight

2026.08.11 17:00

SCOOP: New researcher reveals how the "secret" reasoning traces of several models can be recovered using a weaker (and less aligned) version of the same model. It suggests that some models, including Kimi 3, may well have been distilled from Claude and GPT traces, although as I explain this doesn't mean the model is "copied".