alexbond | P2P 🪙💧

Sage by @LevantoLabs is the first decision model, launched in July, and currently the best on the market. It wins across all the evals proposed by @perplexity_ai's CEO (nice job @AravSrinivas!), and it's first on JevBench, beating Jev and Google's models on every dimension. BUT frankly, benchmarks are not what excites us. I'm BORED by the dozens of new decision models launching every day with a tiny +0.02 on some eval. They all look the same. The magic is somewhere else. There are thousands of new things that could be invented in the space of decision models and models for machines. The invention space is huge! After launching Sage, we also pioneered: - The first guardrails and model routers built on decision models - Automated context engineering with "grounding" (automatic web search when confidence is low). Decision models are only as smart as their context, especially because they can't make tool calls. - Reasoning. In many use cases you don't know whether your question is System 1 or System 2. With reasoning, the model is as fast as a System 1 model when the question is System 1, and takes more time when it's needed. This enables hard, multi-step decisions. Our clients just want the correct answer, and in some use cases they're happy to wait 0.5s more. This will soon become the market standard (GLiDE/@george_onx and @TypeLLM already followed). And *so* much is yet to come. Models for machines: it's just the beginning! We're cooking. Follow @levantolabs for new product primitives that will surprise you. Open innovation is HEALTHY. Competition is HEALTHY. Benchmark-race is BORING. Product inventions are FUN. Go go go!!!