[criemen]

> Is there an equivalent ultra-high-end LLM you can have if you’re willing to pay? Or does it not exist because it would cost too much to train?

I guess at the time that was GPT-4.5. I don't think people used it a lot because it was crazy expensive, and not that much better than the rest of the crop.

[foobar10000]

The issue is not better - it’s better _AND_ fast enough. An agentic loop is essentially [think,verify] in a loop - i.e. [t1,v1,t2,v2,t3,v3,…] A model that does [t1,t2,t3,t4] in 40 minutes, if verify takes 10 min, will most likely do MUCH worse that a model that does t1 (decently worse) in 10 mins, v1 in 10 mins, t2 now based on t1 and v1 in 10 mins, v2 in 10 mins, etc..

So, for agentic workflows - ones where the model gets feedback from tools, etc…, fast enough is important.