Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills
Tomás Hernando Kofman
- When
- Wednesday, July 12:50 PM – 3:10 PM · 20 min
- Where
- Leadership 2San Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
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.
Speaker
CEO & Co-Founder, Not Diamond
Tomás Hernando Kofman is the founder of Not Diamond, the world's most powerful intelligent model router for coding agents. Not Diamond helps engineering teams achieve frontier quality at a fraction of the price by identifying when a prompt requires a more powerful model and when a cheaper one is sufficient. They work with some of the highest volume AI startups and enterprises in the world, including OpenRouter and SAP, and are backed by Jeff Dea, Julien Chaumond, Ion Stoica, and many others.
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