Why LinkedIn says prompting was a non-starter — and small models was the breakthrough

VentureBeat
Jan 21, 2026, 11:30 pm202 ptsTop
LinkedIn is a leader in AI recommender systems, having developed them over the last 15-plus years. But getting to a next-gen recommendation stack for the job-seekers of tomorrow required a whole new technique. The company had to look beyond off-the-shelf models to achieve next-level accuracy, latency, and…

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