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The core idea of model routing is that not all tasks require the most powerful model; simple tasks can use lightweight models such as GPT-4o-mini, Claude 3 Haiku, or Llama 3.1 8B, potentially at just 1/50 or even 1/100 the cost of flagship models.
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