GEMINI DISTILLATION SERVICE

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

The Gemini Distillation Service allows users to train a smaller, more efficient 'student' model that uses the outputs and reasoning patterns of a larger, more capable 'teacher' model. Distillation enables production-grade efficiency while allowing smaller models to achieve a deeper level of reasoning. It is recommended for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications, complex reasoning tasks, and when there are significant performance gaps between the teacher and student models. The distillation service currently only supports gemini-3.1-pro as the teacher model and gemini-2.5-flash as the student model.