AI Engineer
World's Fair
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Microsoft

Choosing a model: quality dominates

What are your top 3 considerations for choosing a model for production?

Accuracy and output quality are far and away the top consideration.
Only 5% think of open-weight as a primary consideration.

Accuracy / quality 67
Agentic capabilities (like tool-calling) 53
Cost 53
Open weights 5
Other 1