Are Specialized Language Models the Future of AI? [Ft. Iddo Gino, Datawizz]
Enterprise AI spend on LLM APIs hit $8 billion in just the first half of 2025 — double all of 2024. Most of that spend is going to the same general-purpose models, and Iddo Gino thinks companies are building on a foundation that won't hold.
Iddo founded his first company at 17, scaled it to unicorn status by 24, and spent nearly a decade in the API integration space. His position is straightforward: trillion-parameter models optimized to do everything are expensive, slow, and ill-suited for the narrow, repeatable tasks that make up the majority of production AI workloads. The companies…
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