I wouldn't be surprised if "the best model" becomes a niche concept over the next few years. For most production systems the winning architecture may end up being an orchestrator that knows when to call a cheap model when to escalate to a stronger one and when to combine multiple outputs. thanks to everyone for taking the time to try Echo and share feedback, this is precisely why i wanted to launch early. i am going to try to address a couple of topics that came up often: - i'll keep publishing stronger evals, including more difficult coding and agentic benchmarks, to map out more precisely the differences with sota - the public eval dashboard will keep expanding and be updated (very open to more benchmark suggestions as well!) - some people found issues in the eval dashboard ui and the sign up flow, should be now all fixed in prod some important precisions as well: - NO credit card is required to try Echo - each acount includes 10$ of free credits to try on both the API and the chat on the approach itself:…