Model distillation is one of the technology trends that has reached a level of maturity identified in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for artificial intelligence (AI) as “the slope of enlightenment”.

The AI industry is witnessing a transformative trend: the use of distillation to make AI models smaller and cheaper. This shift, spearheaded by companies like DeepSeek and OpenAI, is reshaping the AI ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...

DeepSeek's R1 model attracted global attention in January Article in Nature reveals R1's compute training costs for the first time DeepSeek also addresses claims it distilled OpenAI's models in ...