The case for bespoke classifiers, even now that LLMs do JSON
Frontier models return valid JSON every time. A small classifier trained on your own categories still wins on consistency, cost and ownership. Here's why.
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Small, specialised models: classifiers, fine-tunes and speech recognition, and when a model of your own beats a general-purpose API.
Frontier models return valid JSON every time. A small classifier trained on your own categories still wins on consistency, cost and ownership. Here's why.
A script for fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition models using Modal's serverless GPU infrastructure.