Google is apparently taking a different stance and offering distillation as a paid product

petu an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You don't get to take distilled model home, it all stays with Google.

It's "optimize your costs in our garden" product.

	▲	verdverm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		yup, strings are certainly attached when dealing with US Big Tech / Ai I recommend Fireworks as an alternative

behnamoh 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But nobody wants to distill Google's models, Gemini is really bad.

	▲	verdverm 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		strong agreement, I've stopped using all closed weight models on principle, but the latest gemini models have increased hallucinations and now talk back, so double reason not to use them