26 Feb 2026 · 8 min read
The smallest model that works
How we built a production computer vision service on a Chinese 8B parameter model that costs almost nothing — and why that was the right engineering decision.
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How we built a production computer vision service on a Chinese 8B parameter model that costs almost nothing — and why that was the right engineering decision.
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