Model Distillation in the API
What changed
Fine-tune a cost-efficient model with the outputs of a large frontier model–all on the OpenAI platform
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- Introducing Structured Outputs in the API
- Fine-Tune a Semantic Segmentation Model with a Custom Dataset
- Bamba: Inference-Efficient Hybrid Mamba2 Model
Sources
- Model Distillation in the API (openai-blog)primary