📺 Prefer to watch? 90-second YouTube Short · 💬 Telegram Originally published on software-engineer-blog.com . Your model works. It's just too big to ship. You have two standard paths to shrink it — and they are nothing alike. Mental model: Quantization is compression; distillation is re-education. One shrinks the same brain, the other builds a smaller one that imitates the original. Quantization: Same Brain, Fewer Bits Quantization takes your trained mo...