I guess depends on how you define ‘reproduce’. Reproduce this level of innovation going forward? Maybe (see my comments above).
Replicate what they’ve already done? Oh yeah, pretty sure a small team can.
I think your imagination here is stuck in some pre 2025 world.
I invite you to read the paper to get a better sense of what’s going on here.
Obviously they are likely doing distillation of some sort, but everything is going to be distillation at this point. This is the entire reflexive bootstrapping model that we should have not just expected but designed and planned for. Takeoff: how it it is happening