Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); “A wait barrier holds until every perspective finishes, then the model the user selected acts as the ‘chair,’” Dwyer told us in an email. Ask a query, get an answer put together by a synthesizer model from whichever models aren’t on their smoke break - that was that. With the addition of Model Council to Computer, users can now choose from two to eight models for their AI advisory board, with options ranging from models supplied by frontier labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to open-weight models including GLM and Kimi.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); “A wait barrier holds until every perspective finishes, then the model the user selected acts as the ‘chair,’” Dwyer told us in an email.
- ▪Ask a query, get an answer put together by a synthesizer model from whichever models aren’t on their smoke break - that was that.
- ▪With the addition of Model Council to Computer, users can now choose from two to eight models for their AI advisory board, with options ranging from models supplied by frontier labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to open-weight model
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