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Cost-Aware Model Routing in Production: Why Every Request Shouldn’t Hit Your Best Model
Your system isn’t expensive because your models are expensive. It’s expensive because every request defaults to the most capable model you have. That’s not a cost problem. That’s a routing problem. And most systems don’t have a routing layer at all. Part 1 established why inference cost emerges from behavior, not provisioning. Part 2 explained…
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Stop Renting Intelligence: The Architect’s Case for On-Prem DSLMs
The new center of gravity. Visualizing the shift from massive public cloud “Brain” models to distributed, highly specialized on-prem “Neural Nodes.” AI repatriation isn’t a trend anymore — it’s an architectural reckoning. For the last two years, enterprises treated AI like a utility bill: swipe the corporate card, send data to an API endpoint, pay…
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