AI & ML · Jul 26
Model Distillation Is Becoming AI Strategy, Not Just Compression
The tech world has rediscovered an old ML trick, because smaller models are starting to look like strategic leverage.
- Treat distillation as a deployment strategy, not just a compression trick.
- Use frontier models as teachers or evaluators, then test smaller students on real workloads.
- Document teacher models, training signals, and student failures before shipping distilled systems.