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Sep 21, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

7B Model Outperforms GPT-5.6 and Opus 5 via Continual Self-Distillation

Researchers from UIUC and Tsinghua startup Astraculum built a Social World Model using a 7B LLM with continual self-distillation on 390 days of prediction market data, achieving deployment-time learning that beats static frontier models like GPT-5.6 and Claude Opus 5.