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Model Optionality by Business Logic
Route across models instead of marrying one lab.
How it works
- 1Do not marry a single lab. Build a routing layer and switch based on the task, the cost, the privacy requirement, and the sovereignty requirement.
- 2Treat open weights as behind but closing, and treat sovereign deployment as a requirement for enterprise and government buyers rather than an ideology.
- 3Watch consolidation at the layer below you. NVIDIA's Hugging Face agreement changes who controls the open ecosystem you would be relying on.
- 4Weigh the cost and benefit of each sandbox openly, then keep the switch available.
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