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Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook
Enterprise AI procurement should prioritize task-focused specialization rather than defaulting to the largest available frontier models. In an OCR benchmark for Brazilian Portuguese, a specialized 3B model outperformed commercial frontier APIs on all fronts (quality, cost, and production stability) suggesting training history alignment is more decisive than parameter count.
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