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Distillation

Training a smaller model to imitate a larger one's outputs, capturing much of its capability at lower cost.

How vendors produce mini, Flash and Haiku tiers, and a point of dispute in vendor terms of service.

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Fine-tuningGPUMixture of experts (MoE)Open-weight modelParameters

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