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Real-world production deployments of distilled small language models.
The pattern we keep seeing in edtech: smaller models, better decisions
Three education platforms, three narrow high-volume decisions. Fine-tuned small models matched the frontier models they replaced while cutting inference cost 68% in one case, halving false positives in another, and beating the production grader in a third, trained on nothing but existing logs.
Agent Distillation with dltHub: the traces your agents already produce train the smaller model that replaces them
See what each agent costs, then replace the expensive ones with a hosted drop-in model at 50-90% lower inference cost. Launching with dltHub's standardized ingestion layer, so there is no pipeline to build.
A 0.6B model outperformed a 120B LLM by 29 points - using dlt, distil labs, and Hugging Face
How to turn production LLM traces into a deployed specialist model using dlt for trace extraction and distil labs for training, achieving 79% exact match with a 0.6B model that beats a 120B teacher by 29 points.
How Knowunity used distil labs to cut their LLM bill by 68%
Knowunity, an edtech startup processing hundreds of millions of AI requests monthly, used distil labs to train a custom small language model that cut inference costs by 68% while improving classification accuracy from 81% to 93%.
Helping Rocketgraph's customers with an OpenCypher-specialized small language model
How distil labs partnered with Rocketgraph to finetune a small language model specialized in translating user questions to Rocketgraph-compliant Cypher queries on IBM Power hardware.
Teaching Small Language Models New Skills - Training a Local Cybersecurity Agent
How distil labs partnered with Octodet to train a small language model that outperforms LLMs 30x its size at analyzing cybersecurity logs, while running entirely on-premises to meet strict privacy requirements.