The Practical AI Digest

Distillation: How Small Models Eat Big Models for Lunch

August 27, 2026·20 min
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Training a frontier model costs millions. Distilling a capable student from it costs thousands. Knowledge distillation is quietly reorganizing the economics of the entire AI industry.

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