Sustainability via LLM Right-sizing

In three linesEmpirical study comparing 11 LLMs (GPT-4o, Gemma-3, Phi-4, etc.) across 10 everyday occupational tasks. GPT-4o delivers superior performance but at higher cost; smaller models achieve strong results with better efficiency. Proposes task-aware sufficiency assessments over performance-maximizing benchmarks.

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