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As Satya Nadella and market analysts note, the long-term margin moat in generative AI belongs to the orchestration layer. By deploying dynamic routing, a customer application is never held hostage to an individual model provider's pricing or capacity outages.
Over 65% of enterprise queries (simple lookups, tone formatting, routine emails) can be fully resolved by sub-billion or 8B parameter models under 100ms. A cascading router only fires costly 70B+ reasoning tokens when perplexity indicators flag ambiguity.
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