LLM Models and APIs
researched 2026-05-25· 20 sources · 10 concepts · skill llm-models
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The 2–3 Model Production Pattern
Children
- AI Programming Languages
- LLM Integration Patterns
- Model Selection and Pricing (frontier)
- Fine-Tuning and Local Inference (frontier)
- Embeddings (frontier)
- LLM Alignment and Post-Training
- LLM Compression (Quantization, Distillation, Pruning, Merging)
- Reasoning Models and Test-Time Compute
- Distributed Training & Training Infrastructure
- LLM Pretraining & Scaling Laws
- Multimodal & Vision-Language Model Architecture
- Agentic RL — Reinforcement Learning for LLM Agents
- Diffusion & Generative Models (frontier)
- Mechanistic Interpretability
- Diffusion & Generative-Media Models
- AI Gateways & LLM Proxy Infrastructure
- On-Device & Local LLM Runtimes
Frontier under this node: Diffusion & Generative Models, Embeddings, Fine-Tuning and Local Inference, Model Selection and Pricing