An LLM platform provides access to language models plus surrounding capabilities for integration, customization, deployment, and prompt-based control. Evaluate it by the tasks it supports, not by model size alone. section 2.5.1
Compare platforms across:
- Integration: determine whether the platform exposes API access or fits existing systems. section 2.5.1
- Customization: distinguish prompt-based instruction, private fine-tuning, and downloadable models. section 2.5.1
- Response quality: test usefulness, legibility, hallucination risk, and performance on the intended task. section 2.5.1
Platform trade-off
OpenAI provides paid API access and prompt-based output control, but not private deployment of further fine-tuned GPT models. Meta’s open-source Llama permits further training, while users must build deployment infrastructure. section 2.5.1
