{"slug": "a-brief-history-of-distillation-in-ai", "title": "A brief history of distillation in AI", "summary": "Sergio Paniego published a brief history of distillation in AI, covering the technique's evolution and its role in post-training open models with TRL, ahead of a class on training agents.", "body_md": "https://t.co/3ERmpOyevi\n\nSergio Paniego@SergioPaniegoArticleA brief history of distillation in AIThis is a warm-up for Class 2 of our Training an Agent series, where we distill open models with TRL. First, a short history. Distillation is a hot topic in post-training. The latest GLM-5.2 release...3:28 PM · Jul 3, 202629.2KViews662323138138209209Read 6 replies", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-brief-history-of-distillation-in-ai", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/SergioPaniego/status/2073066275819991472", "published_at": "2026-07-13 18:50:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 19:05:15.267630+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Sergio Paniego", "TRL", "GLM-5.2"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-brief-history-of-distillation-in-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-brief-history-of-distillation-in-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-brief-history-of-distillation-in-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-brief-history-of-distillation-in-ai.jsonld"}}