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The Hybrid Routing Model
Tarun's prescription for where each workload should actually run.
How it works
- 1Tier one: low IP density, low data gravity. Send it to frontier models and public cloud.
- 2Tier two: real proprietary value. Fine-tune a large open source model and run it inside your own ecosystem.
- 3Tier three: crown jewels. The frontier model never sees the data, the metadata, or the algorithm.
- 4There is no out-of-the-box router. The classification work is the product.
Hear it on the podcast
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