The cheap decision models are the real story of October

Forget the flagships. pplx-decider at $0.04 per million input is a different game.

I wanted to stop doing this by hand and wired up both to try.

Forget the flagships. pplx-decider at $0.04 per million input is a different game.

A labeled call to a decision model costs less than a short GPT-6 Luna reply.

These narrow models do one job: pick. That's most of what we actually ask for.

I'm rewiring the boring classification tasks to them this week.

Too Many AI Tools? Here’s a Better Way to Find What You Actually Need

The headlines were about bigger models. The real story was smaller, faster, and a lot cheaper to run.

While everyone chased the named models, a pile of open-weight releases quietly changed what you can run at home.

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