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Distillation in Practice: Ablating Gemma 3 27B with synthetic data from Sonnet 4

May 30, 2025
A hands-on experiment fine-tuning Gemma 3 27B using synthetic data from Sonnet 4, achieving performance that rivals GPT-4o on specific tasks while being smaller and cheaper to run.

When Fine-Tuning Actually Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide

May 28, 2025
Most teams are curious about fine-tuning and how it might help their AI products, but they don't know what to expect from the process, how to measure success, or where to start.

Kiln v0.16.0 Released

May 17, 2025
Qwen 3, Gemma 3, Evals Guides, and Fine Tuning Updates!

Fine Tuning for Prompt Engineers

Mar 21, 2025
Learn how to fine-tune LLMs without coding in under 20 minutes. Turn existing prompts into custom models that are faster, cheaper, and often better than prompting larger models.

Kiln v0.13.1 Released

Mar 19, 2025
Vertex, Azure, QwQ, Gemma, Hugging Face, W&B, Anthropic, Import CSV, and More!

Kiln v0.12.1 Released

Mar 3, 2025
Powerful Evaluation Toolkit & Support for Distilling Sonnet 3.7 Thinking

Video Guide: Create LLM Evals in under 20 minutes

Mar 3, 2025
Easily create your own LLM evals in minutes. Use powerful evaluation methods like LLM-as-Judge and G-eval from Kiln's UI without coding.

Kiln v0.11.1 Released

Feb 10, 2025
A new release, faster synthetic data, bug fixes, and Kiln news.

Kiln Hits 1,000 GitHub Stars

Feb 7, 2025
That was fast. Thank you for the support!

Fine Tuning Video Guide: Distill Deepseek R1 into Llama 8B

Feb 5, 2025
Create your own reasoning model in under 30 minutes with Kiln AI.

The Vector Institute for AI Research has Adopted Kiln

Jan 25, 2025
The Vector Institute, a research lab founded by Geoff Hinton, has started using Kiln for their AI research.

Guide: Fine Tune 9 LLM Models in 18 Minutes

Dec 16, 2024
A step-by-step guide to easily fine-tune from scratch with Kiln. No coding required.