Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
We desperately need a smart model router.
1. We’re seeing a model explosion: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, GLM-5.2, and Fable 5 all launched within the past month.
2. Even for a single model family like GPT-5.6, there're 3 (Sol, Terra, Luna) and 5 reasoning-effort levels.
That is far too many decisions for users to make manually.
The best model should be selected automatically based on the task, latency, quality, and cost.