Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills
Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 2:50pm-3:10pm
- Track/room: Sandbox & Platform Engineering · Leadership 2
- Speaker(s): Tomás Hernando Kofman
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
- Track: Sandbox & Platform Engineering
- Room: Leadership 2
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed
Session Description
It is Summer 2026 and the world is burning for token consumption—figuratively and literally. Accelerating frontier model capabilities increasingly allow agents to operate across long-running, highly parallelized tasks at exponential inference growth. In this talk, I explain how dynamic model routing—intelligently directing agent requests to the best-suited model at the best price—can reduce token costs by up to 90% while maintaining or improving accuracy. I walk through how routing works, when it doesn't, and why the world (and your agent) need routing to scale intelligence to infinity and beyond.
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Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 2:50pm-3:10pm - Track/room: Sandbox & Platform Engineering · Leadership 2 - Speaker(s): Tomás Hernando Kofman - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Sandbox & Platform Engineering - Room: Leadership 2 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description It is Summer 2026 and the world is burning for token consumption—figuratively and literally. Accelerating frontier model capabilities increasingly allow agents to operate across long-running, highly parallelized tasks at exponential inference growth. In this talk, I explain how dynamic model routing—intelligently directing agent requests to the best-suited model at the best price—can reduce token costs by up to 90% while maintaining or improving accuracy. I walk through how routing works, when it doesn't, and why the world (and your agent) need routing to scale intelligence to infinity and beyond.
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- Tomás Hernando Kofman — CEO & Co-Founder at Not Diamond.
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