OpenAI's head of strategic futures publicly stated that you can't explain the quality of the newest Kimi via distillation. Further, you can just read the paper

OpenAI's head of strategic futures publicly stated that you can't explain the quality of the newest Kimi via distillation. Further, you can just read the papers released alongside most open models. Plenty of hugely influential research results published that drive the frontier forward. It's not like these models are just existing architectures downloaded from Huggingface and trained on frontier lab APIs.