Model Routing: Blended Cost vs Quality
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You route a growing share of Fernhill Assist's reply drafts from the large to the small model, calculate the blended cost and quality of each split, pick the cheapest split that keeps quality high enough, and chart the trade-off.
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