Gradio's Distillation Project Cost Just $16, Run End-to-End by AI

Gradio revealed its prompt-rewriter distillation project cost only about $16 total, with training at $0.75, and was executed end-to-end by an AI agent (ML-Intern) that wrote 8,797 requests in 18 languages, showing distillation is a data-cost problem.

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