@levie: The layer that can route to the best AI model for the particular job is going to increase in value substantially. There…
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A tweet argues that the layer routing between AI models will become increasingly valuable due to cost optimization, capability differences, and risk mitigation, while quoting OpenRouter's Fusion API announcement.
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The layer that can route to the best AI model for the particular job is going to increase in value substantially. There are at least 3 big reasons:
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Cost optimization: there are plenty of use cases where you need frontier intelligence for some tasks and something far cheaper for others. Even in the same task you may use frontier intelligence for planning and review of the work, but an OSS or cheaper model for the bulk of the workload. This is going to be standard across large buckets of work going forward.
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Capability maximization: despite the bitter lesson and models generally getting better in the same direction, there are still lots of differences between models. Some are better at tool use, others better at coding, and others again better at certain domains of knowledge work. The ability to route between these at different times is a huge advantage.
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Risk mitigation: while the Fable situation is somewhat of a black swan, it’s possible we’re heading toward a regulatory environment where governments may restrict models at different times based on their approval mechanisms or new things they discover. This means you’re going to want flexibility in being able to deploy workloads across different providers as a form of risk mitigation.
Ultimately, it’s going to increasingly be a a strategic advantage for the applied AI layer that they can effectively route between models. Will be very interesting to see how this evolves.
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