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Centralized vs Task-Specific LLMs

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You are deciding how to power several NLP features in one product, including classification, extraction, and question answering. The team can either deploy one large centralized language model or maintain multiple smaller models tuned for each task.

Question

Discuss the tradeoffs between deploying a large centralized LLM versus multiple smaller, task-specific models.