Local AI Digest: Vision Distillation and Breaking the Logic Barrier

Alibaba releases Qiji: an open-source framework for distilling closed-source reasoning into open models

It is not just Qwen's show. Alibaba's new Qiji framework explicitly destroys the model after training to create a "stateless" teacher, which solves a big safety blocker for commercializing synthetic data. This pushes open-source model generation closer to the enterprise safety bar.