Think smaller: why specialist SLMs beat frontier models in production
Most agent tasks do not need a frontier model. The subtasks inside a production agent are largely repetitive and narrowly scoped, and a small language model of 1B to 8B parameters, fine-tuned on your production data, beats a frontier model on cost, latency and accuracy for that job. Serving a 7B ru…
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Think smaller: why specialist SLMs beat frontier models in production