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AI Is Cheaper to Copy Than Create

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  • “$2 million in API costs can extract capabilities that cost $2 billion to develop” — the distillation economics argument that makes open-weight model competition structurally asymmetric.
  • Capability collapse in distilled models and provenance implications for production systems — direct context for the DeepSeek/Anthropic distillation controversy.