Model routing
Choosing among models based on cost, difficulty, latency, policy, or modality.
What Model routing does not show
A routed product name does not identify which model answered unless that decision is logged.
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Questions about Model routing
What is Model routing?
Choosing among models based on cost, difficulty, latency, policy, or modality.
What does Model routing not show or guarantee?
A routed product name does not identify which model answered unless that decision is logged.
Which area of the glossary does Model routing belong to?
Models and generation: How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.
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