Did Meta just spend 60 trillion tokens last month on Anthropic models to distill from Claude’s reasoning traces the data they needed to bootstrap this new release? If that’s true, that’s pretty intense. Here’s how they could´ve achieved it: Meta spins up a bunch of accounts (not fake, as were those from the Chinese labs) and then uses those accounts to bombard a stronger model (Claude) with carefully crafted prompts designed to extract its reasoning patterns. Then they collect the outputs. Then you use those outputs as training data for their own model. The “student” learns to mimic the “teacher’s” behavior without having to figure it out from scratch. It’s dramatically cheaper and faster than developing capabilities independently.