The efficient frontier of LLM inference

Overview

In the AI industry, we borrowed the term “efficient frontier” from economists. We use it to talk about managing tradeoffs, most often the tradeoff between cost and capabilities for models. A model is a “frontier model” if it offers the highest degree of intelligence at a given cost or size. We also have efficient frontiers in inference engineering. Most often, this is expressed as a tradeoff betwe...

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