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Shopify demonstrates a practical approach to optimizing AI infrastructure by post-training open-source models like NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for specific commerce tasks, achieving significant speed and cost reductions over frontier models. This strategy leverages an internal continual learning loop that uses automated evaluation to refine prompts and control flow before deploying specialized "task experts" on proprietary hardware. The article highlights how controlling model weights allows merchants to bypass API usage costs while maintaining high performance in context-heavy operations like GraphQL querying.