Tokenless routes LLM requests mid-generation to cut inference costs

Tokenless founders Rohit Agarwal, Andrew Liu and Kevin W. are betting that watching several models begin a task beats choosing one upfront.

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Why it matters

Inference routing is becoming a valuable control point in the AI stack. Tokenless is betting that partial model output can guide routing more accurately than prompt inspection alone, while its economics depend on making that decision fast enough to offset parallel inference costs.

The invisible flow of computational activity and decision-making within an AI model routing system (Infrared / thermal render with scientific instrument readout overlays)

Rohit Agarwal, Andrew Liu and Kevin W. are building Tokenless, an LLM router that starts each request on several models, watches their early work and keeps the model that appears most likely to finish successfully. Kevin W.…

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