They HAVE done that. It’s one of the techniques they use to produce things like o1 mini models and the other mini models that run on device.
But that’s not a valid technique for creating new foundation models, just for creating refined versions of existing models. You would never have been able to create for instance, an o1 model from Chat PT 3.5 using distillation.
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