[verdverm]

Google is apparently taking a different stance and offering distillation as a paid product

https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platfo...

[petu]

You don't get to take distilled model home, it all stays with Google.

It's "optimize your costs in our garden" product.

[verdverm]

yup, strings are certainly attached when dealing with US Big Tech / Ai

I recommend Fireworks as an alternative

[behnamoh]

But nobody wants to distill Google's models, Gemini is really bad.

[charcircuit]

I think GLM 5.2 is in part distilled from it.

[verdverm]

strong agreement, I've stopped using all closed weight models on principle, but the latest gemini models have increased hallucinations and now talk back, so double reason not to use them