ScaleDown CDMs: claims 200x faster tools in LangChain
Why it matters
LangChain wired ScaleDown's Summarize, Compress, Extract, and Classify CDMs into Deep Agents. ScaleDown reports CDMs are 200× faster and 467× cheaper than frontier models on these narrow tasks; up to 1M-token inputs; Summarize/Extract/Classify multimodal. On ScaleDown's benches, Summarize was 41× cheaper and Compress 138× cheaper vs an average of GPT-5.5 / 5.4 Mini / Nano.
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