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I work for a router company too, I ran some tests on all of the cheapest models and came to the same outcome where a handful of small models ran together in conjunction outperform SoTA models -- outperforms in that it got a 95% vs a 94% and I bet that changes with the day of the week. Anyways, I did get a similar result in a different sort of measurement.
Can you elaborate on running them "in conjunction"... are you running the same query on multiple models and then using a third model to judge or make consensus? or am I misunderstanding completely. I'd like to understand how these small models "run together"
You just come up with what you want in your head, and tell it to do it in that way and it does it. I trust 5 independent smartest programs ever over the SOTA smartest program's only.