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Distilling Frontier Agents into 0.5B CPU Models: How to Cut $500/Mo LLM Bills to Zero

Distilling Frontier Agents into 0.5B CPU Models: How to Cut $500/Mo LLM Bills to Zero Calling frontier models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro) for narrow, repetitive agent tasks is one of the most expensive architectural patterns in software engineering today. Most production workflows—t…

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  1. 2026-11-12 20:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Distilling Frontier Agents into 0.5B CPU Models: How to Cut $500/Mo LLM Bills to Zero

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