AI Distillation: How Frontier Models Teach Each Other #1870

Geek News Central Audio by Todd Cochrane

Jul 10, 202645:43Technology

In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down AI distillation, the teacher-student technique frontier labs now lean on to train smaller, cheaper models. He also covers GPT-5.6’s government-vetted rollout, Claude Sonnet...

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