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Selecting an LLM Enhancement Strategy

An AI company has a single, powerful, general-purpose language model. They want to create two distinct product offerings from this one model:

  1. A version that is an expert in a stable, complex domain like contract law.
  2. A version that can provide up-to-the-minute, accurate answers on rapidly changing topics like stock market news.

For each product, decide which of the following two general strategies is more appropriate and explain why.

  • Strategy A: Update the model's internal parameters by training it further on a large, specialized dataset.
  • Strategy B: Keep the model's internal parameters fixed, but equip it with new capabilities during its application phase (e.g., by giving it access to external information sources or using more complex output generation procedures).

Your explanation should justify why your chosen strategy is a good fit for the product's goal and why the other strategy is less suitable.

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Updated 2025-10-06

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