Good ideas are usually still good across time and tools

Dogpile was only a good idea while Search Engines were mostly trash.

You needed to search all of them to find something decent.

That's roughly analogous to today. Ignoring cost, you'd be way better off asking all the LLMs to solve a problem (like coding) where you can verify the answer.

So the question is, for things like that -> can a group of models perform better than frontier models, especially at a reasonable cost?

Fable is not a great value, so unless you're trying to find answers to Erdos questions, you can probably do better on cost.

You can probably typically ask 3 or 4 of the top Chinese models for an answer and get a response for the same Fable question... Given that Fable isn't that much better, it's not surprising you can do better for a large subset of problems.

Exactly

High quality, fast & cheap (all 3 combined) - is a formula success.

It’s just way easier said than done.