Distilled DeepSeek R1 Outperforms Llama 3 and GPT-4o in Classifying Error Logs

Can a smaller AI model outperform a larger one? A distilled version of DeepSeek R1 (70B) outperformed Llama and nearly matched GPT-4o in classifying error logs. These results suggest that model efficiency, not just size, is key to AI performance in incident management.