AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”
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AI model distillation allows developers to access powerful language capabilities at lower costs, enabling AI to run on devices like smartphones. This technology presents a trade-off between size and capability, with distilled models being more limited but sufficient for many business applications like customer service chatbots.
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