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SOTA models begin their attack on open weight models
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/openai-anthropic-open-models-trump-china
They try to make distillation as “ip theft” and illegal. So, it begins 
sota providers see kimi and other models as real existential threats.
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Let's go!
McDonald's lobbies against home cooking burgers, OMG!
SOTA models scrape the entire web, download books and torrents illegally, the entirety of github where the "allow us to train AI with your codebase" is enabled by default, grok build was uploading entire codebases with secrets to their servers just to train their models. But if chinese models distill from SOTA models thats "ip theft"