Google opens early-access Gemini distillation service for smaller, cheaper models
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-07-29
Google quietly adds an early-access Gemini distillation service
The screenshot shows Gemini Distillation Service in early access. It lets users train a smaller student model using outputs and reasoning patterns from a larger teacher model, aiming for lower latency and cost in enterprise use cases.
- Google says the service is meant to bridge the gap between frontier models and production efficiency.
- Unlike standard SFT, it uses both teacher responses and raw thoughts.
- Supported models in early access: gemini-3.1-pro as teacher and gemini-2.5-flash as student.
- Google warns it is for experimentation only and should not be used in production yet.
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