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An AI That Learns to Build Its Own Specialists

Part 4 of AI Beyond the Model. I have been thinking about a different way to organize AI. Instead of asking one ever-larger model to perform every task directly, what if the large model learned to create, teach, select, and coordinate specialists? This idea emerged in several conversations. In July 2025, I considered a practical feedback loop in which a cloud model teaches a smaller model running on a device. In August 2026, I broadened that into heterogeneous AI infrastructure: large models working with detectors, trackers, 3D algorithms, and other specialized components.