Distil Labs had a research paper accepted to the SLM-Agents workshop at NeurIPS 2026.
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See who we followDistil Labs built a Jev system using Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for under twenty dollars.
Distil Labs enables agents to automatically iterate on building small language models for specific use cases.
Small language models require extended reasoning time and token generation to solve complex problems effectively.
Distil Labs compared large models versus fine-tuned small models in a production pipeline.
Three deployment methods exist for putting small models into production environments.
Distil Labs enables training and deployment of small models in 30 minutes via CLI or coding agent.
The best mid-size model to fine-tune was the third-best model to prompt.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite model retirement date announced.
Study examines whether base model accuracy predicts fine-tuned performance using mid-size mixture-of-experts benchmark.
Agent Distillation with dltHub trains smaller models using traces from existing agents.
Distil Labs describes using small language models to enhance large language model capabilities.
Distil Labs released an autonomous bug fixing agent.
Distil Labs offers Claude skill to train small language models from production traces.
Article compares small language models for fine-tuning applications.
A 0.6 billion parameter model outperformed a 120 billion parameter LLM by 29 points on a benchmark.
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Distil Labs published guidance on combining expert model optimization with scalable GPU infrastructure for production language models.
Knowunity reduced their LLM costs by 68 percent using Distil Labs technology.
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