distil labs
Artificial Intelligence · LLM & Generative AI
Overview
Your LLM costs are eating your product margins. distil labs trains a specialized model layer on your workload and serves it behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Funding and backers
Backers
1
Project A
Momentum
15/100
rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
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Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
6
best: 8 points
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| Legal entity | Distil Labs GmbH | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Selim NowickiManaging Directorscompany's site
Jacek GolebiowskiManaging Directorscompany's site
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People
Selim Nowicki
Managing Directors
Jacek Golebiowski
Managing Directors
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News
The 10x Inference Tax You Don
Benchmarking fine-tuned small language models (0.6B-8B) against 10 frontier LLMs across 8 datasets shows that task-specific SLMs match or beat frontier models at 10-100x lower inference cost.
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Vibe-Tuning: The Art of Fine-Tuning Small Language Models with a Prompt
Fine-tuning is a pain - you need datasets, ML expertise, and a stack of GPUs just to get started. Not anymore. With model vibe-tuning, you go from prompt to production-ready model without these headaches. This blog post shows you exactly how to build one,
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We Benchmarked 12 Small Language Models Across 8 Tasks to Find the Best Base Model for Fine-Tuning
A systematic benchmark of 12 small language models across 8 tasks reveals Qwen3-4B as the best for fine-tuning, with fine-tuned models matching or exceeding a 120B+ teacher. Smaller models like Llama-3.2-1B show the highest tunability.
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Gitara: How we trained a 3B Function-Calling Git Agent for Local Use
We fine-tuned a small, tool-calling language model to turn plain-English questions into git commands with the accuracy of a cloud LLM.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Berlin
Germany
HQ
Julie-Wolfthorn-Strasse 1, c/o Project A Services, Berlin, 10115, DE