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

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

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

I recommend Fireworks as an alternative

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But nobody wants to distill Google's models, Gemini is really bad.
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I think GLM 5.2 is in part distilled from it.
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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
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