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You have a fixed latency and cost budget at scale. Walk me through quantization vs distillation to hit it.

Two compression levers with very different bills. The arithmetic that decides between them, when to stack both, and the eval discipline that keeps a 'cheaper' model from quietly tanking your hardest 10% of queries.

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Two compression levers with very different bills. The arithmetic that decides between them, when to stack both, and the eval discipline that keeps a 'cheaper' model from quietly tanking your hardest 10% of queries.

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