How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
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DeepSeek's R1 chatbot caused controversy due to its high performance with limited resources, leading to accusations of using knowledge distillation from OpenAI's model. However, distillation is a common AI technique introduced in 2015, allowing smaller models to learn from larger ones efficiently. It's now widely used by tech companies and researchers for various applications, including chain-of-thought reasoning models.
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