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3 Paths Open-Source LLMs Use to Chase the Frontier: Distillation, MoE & Synthetic Data
How do DeepSeek V4 and Qwen3 deliver GPT-4-level performance at one-tenth the cost? A deep dive into the three technical paths — distillation, sparse MoE architecture, and synthetic data — that are closing the gap, and the limits of each.
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