Did Claude Opus 4.8 distill Alibaba's Qwen? Here's what the evidence says (blog.kilo.ai) AI

A Kilo Blog analysis says reports that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 “distilled” Alibaba’s Qwen likely stem from an inconsistent Chinese-language identity bug (possibly from training-data contamination or prompt fragility) and possibly third-party relay routing, since Claude sometimes also responds correctly as Opus and no definitive technical evidence ties Opus weights or training to Qwen; the piece notes that model self-identification is a weak provenance signal and Anthropic has not confirmed any such distillation.