Custom fine-tunes now beat frontier models at ~1/20th the cost, says investor
bindureddy · x · 2026-11-03
Investor Bindu Reddy reports that custom fine-tunes for specific use cases are now outperforming frontier models. They require regular maintenance and updates but cost about 20x less. He names DeepSeek, Gemma, and Qwen as strong base models.
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