LLM Use Cases, Analyses & Benchmarks
LLMs are AI systems trained on vast text data to understand, generate, and manipulate human language for business tasks. We benchmark performance, use cases, cost analyses, deployment options, and best practices to guide enterprise LLM adoption.
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Text-to-SQL: Comparison of LLM Accuracy
I have relied on SQL for data analysis for 18 years, beginning in my days as a consultant. Translating natural-language questions into SQL makes data more accessible, allowing anyone, even those without technical skills, to work directly with databases.
LLM Orchestration in 2026: Top 22 frameworks and gateways
Running multiple LLMs at the same time can be costly and slow if not managed efficiently. Optimizing LLM orchestration is key to improving performance while keeping resource use under control.
Benchmark of 36 LLMs in Finance: Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro & More
We evaluated 36 LLMs in finance on 238 hard questions from the FinanceReasoning benchmark to identify which models excel at complex financial reasoning tasks like statement analysis, forecasting, and ratio calculations. LLM finance benchmark overview We evaluated LLMs on 238 hard questions from the FinanceReasoning benchmark (Tang et al.).
Large Language Models in Cybersecurity in 2026
We evaluated 7 large language models across 9 cybersecurity domains using SecBench, a large-scale and multi-format benchmark for security tasks. We tested each model on 44,823 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and 3,087 short-answer questions (SAQs), covering areas such as data security, identity & access management, network security, vulnerability management, and cloud security.
AI Gateways for OpenAI: OpenRouter Alternatives
We benchmarked OpenRouter, SambaNova, TogetherAI, Groq, and AI/ML API across three indicators (first-token latency, total latency, and output-token count), with 300 tests using short prompts (approx. 18 tokens) and long prompts (approx. 203 tokens) for total latency.
LLM Observability Tools: Weights & Biases, Langsmith ['26]
LLM-based applications are becoming more capable and increasingly complex, making their behavior harder to interpret. Each model output results from prompts, tool interactions, retrieval steps, and probabilistic reasoning that cannot be directly inspected. LLM observability addresses this challenge by providing continuous visibility into how models operate in real-world conditions.
LLM Quantization: BF16 vs FP8 vs INT4
Quantization reduces LLM inference cost by running models at lower numerical precision. We benchmarked 4 precision formats of Qwen3-32B on a single H100 GPU. We ran over 2,000 inference runs and 12,000+ MMLU-Pro questions to measure the real-world trade-offs between speed, memory, and accuracy.
The LLM Evaluation Landscape with Frameworks
Evaluating LLMs requires tools that assess multi-turn reasoning, production performance, and tool usage. We spent 2 days reviewing popular LLM evaluation frameworks that provide structured metrics, logs, and traces to identify how and when a model deviates from expected behavior.
Supervised Fine-Tuning vs Reinforcement Learning
Can large language models internalize decision rules that are never stated explicitly? To examine this, we designed an experiment in which a 14B parameter model was trained on a hidden “VIP override” rule within a credit decisioning task, without any prompt-level description of the rule itself.
LLM Scaling Laws: Analysis from AI Researchers
Large language models predict the next token based on patterns learned from text data. The term LLM scaling laws refers to empirical regularities that link model performance to the amount of compute, training data, and model parameters used during training.