According to CoinMeta, Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, clearly stated at last month's team meeting that the company would not adopt distillation as a shortcut to catch up with large models, even if it would temporarily fall behind domestic competitors as a result. He asked the team to be willing to sacrifice short-term gains in exchange for long-term goals. Distillation is a technique that allows new models to learn from the outputs of more powerful models. Although this approach may make it more difficult for ByteDance's language models to catch up with domestic rivals such as deepseek, kimi, and Qianwen in the short term, ByteDance is more concerned about political risks. The company has previously faced scrutiny from the US government due to TikTok. Despite the fact that TikTok's US data security business has introduced American capital, ByteDance still retains its shares and continues to operate its global business. If accused of extensively extracting the capabilities of cutting-edge US models, Washington might exert pressure on ByteDance again.