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What does the article say about specialized models versus one general model?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

Specialized models for specific business tasks will dominate, not one universal model.

There will not be one model to rule them all. Even OpenAI uses multiple specialized approaches under the hood. GPT-5 wasn’t an AGI breakthrough but an orchestrator of narrower models. In the next decade we’ll see many workflow-aware models designed for specific business tasks. For example, e-commerce retailers will run specialized large language models that represent their brand, understand their product hierarchy, and support their sales and marketing workflows. The future IP will be the specialized knowledge the models have.

— Good News For Consultants. Google CEO: No Company Is Immune To AI · Forbes


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