I think you’re misunderstanding me; I’m not saying places will use an LLM instead (whether cloud-based or on-premise).

I’m talking about them training their own models with a much more specific purpose.

You brought up choosing a menu option in a UI. Jev is really good at something like “find the menu option that best fits the users prompt”. That’s general, and requires a big complicated model.

Companies are usually more interested in something less variable. Ie the menu option they’re looking for is fixed. “Take an arbitrary website and find the Login button”. That’s a _way_ simpler model, and well within the abilities of many large companies to train.

You only need to pay Jev if there are so many variables the model basically has to be general.

Eg classifiers are a separate thing from LLMs and are literally only capable of structured output. It will output one of the X options it was trained to recognize.

I think some of this is that the Venn diagram of people who like AI and the people who like machine learning isn’t a circle. There’s a lot of “intelligences” out there that aren’t an LLM or decision model.