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Distillation

Language models

Distillation is a technique in which a large model, the teacher, is used to train a smaller model, the student, to reproduce its answers. The student keeps most of the teacher's abilities at a much lower running cost. In 2025, DeepSeek released distilled versions of its R1 model built on Qwen and Llama.

In practice at Gensai

Distilled models are among the options Gensai considers for On Premise deployments, where available computing power is limited.