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Route Your AI Across a Dozen Models, and Pay Less for Better Answers
Everyone wants to know which AI model is best. By May 2026 the question itself changed: the lead rotates every few weeks, and the cheapest capable models are now open-weight and Chinese. This PRO deep dive is a working playbook for routing instead, matching the right model to each job, then sending the rest through one small open-source gateway you run yourself. It also shows how to use DeepSeek-class models without shipping a single prompt to a server in China.
Implicator PRO Briefing / 26 May 2026
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Everyone keeps asking which AI model is best. By May 2026 the question has quietly broken: the lead changes every few weeks, and the cheapest capable models are now open-weight and Chinese. This week's deep dive is a working playbook for the answer that actually holds, routing. It maps which model wins which job across seven use cases, breaks down the engines behind the names and what they really cost, and walks through LiteLLM, the free gateway you can run on a small box to cut spend, add budgets and fallbacks, and use DeepSeek or GLM without sending a prompt to China.
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Editor-in-Chief and founder of Implicator.ai. Former ARD correspondent and senior broadcast journalist with 10+ years covering tech. Writes daily briefings on policy and market developments. Based in San Francisco.
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