Distillation buys you most of a frontier model's quality at a fraction of the serving cost. The signal is naming the three LLM-specific variants and knowing which one works against a closed API. Here is the answer.
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Distillation buys you most of a frontier model's quality at a fraction of the serving cost. The signal is naming the three LLM-specific variants and knowing which one works against a closed API. Here is the answer.
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