Part 05 · Building LLM Applications
Model Selection: Quality, Speed and Cost
Size vs qualityLatency & costOpen vs closed weightsContext lengthPrompt vs RAG vs fine-tune
Bigger is not always better. How to pick a model for a job by weighing quality against latency and cost, open weights against an API, and a long context against retrieval, before you write a single prompt.
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