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A local model is equal to hosted models for 4 of 5 call sites

The authors tell that 2 hosted call sites give the same live result for 28% of the spend.

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Same score, less spend Hosting only the two generative sites scored 39/43, the same as hosting everything, for 28% of the spend. Same score, less spend Host everything Only 2 generative sites JUDGED CORRECT 39/43 39/43 SPEND 28%
In a live home-automation test judged by a user, hosting only the two generative sites matched hosting everything, for 28% of the spend.

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  1. Not Every Call Needs a Frontier Model: Per-Call-Site Evaluation of Small Language Models in a Deployed Agentic Home-Automation Systemarxiv.org
AI MATTER · NEWS · AI MATTER · NEWS ·8 OCT2026

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