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Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

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mrinterweb · 1785956587 · focus · HN ↗
There is so much opportunity for purpose built models like this. Ideally a harness should spin up a subagent to offload to targeted models for specific tasks like this. I know this is not a novel idea. Claude code does some of this by handing off the "explore" agent work to haiku. I just love seeing that specialized LLMs are being developed.
1. Razengan · 1785960393 · focus · HN ↗
  > There is so much opportunity for purpose built models like this.
  OpenAI etc could themselves do this, and maybe they already do? Where the public-facing interface delegates to multiple little goblins behinds the scenes
  1. mrinterweb · 1785960780 · focus · HN ↗
    Exactly. There could be a lot of value for inference companies to do this. Could save a lot of money being able to hand off highly repetitive known tasks to far smaller specialized models.
  2. kumama · 1785981027 · focus · HN ↗
    castform founder here. openai actually deprecated their finetuning apis a few months back weirdly.

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