Every enterprise AI conversation seems to circle back to the same assumption: the bigger the model, the better the outcome. It is time to challenge that. Some of the most successful AI deployments today run on models a fraction of the size of the frontier giants making headlines.
The secret is not raw power. It is precision. LLM distillation takes the reasoning ability of a massive model and passes it down to a smaller one trained for a single job, whether that is claims processing, contract review, or customer support.