[zozbot234]

"tool call" is just a reference to any elementary interaction with the outside system. It's not calling third-party APIs or anything like that.

[storystarling]

True, but that's still 1,500 inference cycles. Even without external API fees, the latency and compute burden seems huge. I don't see how the economics work there without significant subsidies.

[darrinm]

FWIW many tool calls can be and often are made in one inference cycle.