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Teaching a Small Model to Check a Big Model’s Work

calendar_today September 11, 2026 person Marcos Esteve domain reuters

Part 1 of a series on distilling large-model calls into small, specialised models — starting with self-evaluation. Modern AI support assistants are impressive, but they are also expensive to run. Behind a single answer sits a whole chain of calls to large commercial language models.

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