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# Build efficient agents with knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AI

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**Published:** 2026-11-02T17:01:31.000Z
**Category:** Agents
**Topics:** amazon, agent

## Summary

Agentic assistants built on frontier models run a multi\-step tool loop\. Sequence\-level knowledge distillation \(SeqKD\) can transfer a frontier teacher's agentic behavior into a small, lower\-cost student on Amazon SageMaker AI\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-efficient-agents-with-knowledge-distillation-on-amazon-sagemaker-ai/>)