Model Routing

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Model Routing explores how teams decide when to use local models, open-source models, or frontier

cloud systems, and why the answer is increasingly hybrid rather than one-size-fits-all. The panel

digs into routing architectures, model selection strategies, stack decisions, and what still needs

to improve in local AI before more workloads can move closer to the user. Moderator: Nader Khalil

(NVIDIA). Panelists: Walden Yan (Cognition), Tanay Varshney (NVIDIA), Alex Atallah (OpenRouter).

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Fun stories from building OpenRouter and where all this is going - Alex Atallah, OpenRouter (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

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