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As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

This sample demonstrates how to use Durable Functions to call multiple models in parallel to quickly get the best response to a user's query. It uses three models - GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4o-mini, and Phi ...