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Lewis Tunstall says specialised science models beat frontier LLMs on cost

AILewis Tunstall says frontier models must become orders of magnitude cheaper to work at the scale science requires, and that specialised models are better used as tools for generalist models. He points to ChefNMR2, which has up to 2,170× lower median runtime and 360× lower median cost per molecule than the frontier LLMs tested.
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great to see more specialised models for the natural sciences!

despite recent claims on the "death of specialised ML", it's pretty clear that frontier models will need to be orders of magnitude cheaper in order to be effective at the large scales needed for science.

results like these show how specialised models are far better used as tools by the generalist models, rather than trying to cover every single domain of inquiry with "big blobs of compute"

Ellen Zhong@ZhongingAlong
A cost and timing comparison 💸 ChefNMR2 has up to 2,170× lower median runtime and 360× lower median cost per molecule than the frontier LLMs we tested. 9/
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Original title: great to see more specialised models for the natural sciences!