Model Selection Cookbook

[shikhar-cyber]

Summary

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Motivation

This cookbook serves as your practical guide to selecting, prompting, and deploying the right OpenAI model (between GPT 4.1, o3, and o4-mini) for specific workloads. Instead of exhaustive documentation, we provide actionable decision frameworks and real-world examples that help Solutions Engineers, Technical Account Managers, Partner Architects, and semi-technical practitioners quickly build working solutions.

Why are these changes necessary? How do they improve the cookbook?

The content focuses on current model capabilities, vertical-specific implementations, and today's industry needs, with clear pathways from model selection to production deployment. Each section offers concise, adaptable code examples that you can immediately apply to your use cases while pointing to existing resources for deeper dives into specific topics.

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[erikakettleson-openai]

Looks great - tested locally - very excited about this one!