Open source AI-SQL engine Quail signals shift toward cheap task-specific models
sh_reya · x · 2026-09-27
A roundup of recent progress in efficient, task-specific AI: Quail, an open source AI-SQL engine from @shreya and Modal, makes querying big datasets with AI much faster and cheaper, while Jev from @typesafeai shows classification-only models are still highly useful. Practitioner takeaway: today's production AI is the least efficient it will ever be.
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