# OpenAI — Model Distillation in the API

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-10-01T10:02:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/api-model-distillation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/689-model-distillation-in-the-api

OpenAI announces model distillation in the API, allowing users to fine-tune a cost-efficient model using outputs from a large frontier model, all within the OpenAI platform.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/api-model-distillation:

> Fine-tune a cost-efficient model with the outputs of a large frontier model–all on the OpenAI platform

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