📖What it means

The language model that answers a call — the thing that actually does the reasoning. Which model serves a request is decided by the lane and by the registry, never by the code at the call site typing a name.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Provider", "distinction": "The model is what answers; the provider is the company serving it."}, {"term": "Adapter", "distinction": "The model is the intelligence; the adapter is the code that talks to it."}, {"term": "Agent", "distinction": "A model is a capability an agent uses; the agent is who is accountable."}]

📖Also called

- LLM
- the model
- engine

📖Filed under

Category: general.

Service: Cost Center.