Know what each model is good at.
Canonical identities, comparable capabilities, constraints, and provenance-backed evidence.
MC-1 sits above models and infrastructure, turning every task, policy, budget, privacy boundary, and performance objective into a governed execution decision.
MC-1 evaluates authorization before optimization, selects only eligible routes, and records the evidence needed to explain each decision.
Routing is one decision inside a broader control loop for quality, security, economics, and adaptation.
Canonical identities, comparable capabilities, constraints, and provenance-backed evidence.
Cost, latency, health, quota, region, privacy, and availability shape provider eligibility.
Identity, permissions, policy, and risk gates constrain sensitive tools and actions.
Deterministic and model-assisted checks support bounded recovery and escalation.
Budgets and objectives guide every route without obscuring underlying inference cost.
Measured demand can inform experiments and customer-controlled specialization.
MC-1 can evaluate approved customer compute, direct providers, managed routing networks, and private infrastructure without treating them as interchangeable.
Customer compute is preferred when eligible, and its provider cost remains outside MC-1 managed inference billing.
Nebius, Together, Fireworks, NIM, and network routes require valid credentials, health, pricing, and policy eligibility.
Local-only, private, region, and restricted-data declarations prevent ineligible managed egress.
MC-1 separates controlled measurements, cited third-party evidence, and explicit projections. Empty evidence remains empty instead of becoming a marketing number.
Quality, cost, latency, tool behavior, and completion evidence appear only after a benchmark is recorded.
External evidence retains its source and is never presented as an MC-1-controlled measurement.
Kouadio and Li describe the architecture, formulation, evaluation method, and research agenda.
Read the preprint →It operates above independently trained models and separates the decision layer from the infrastructure that performs inference.
MC-1 extracts request features, applies tenant policy, ranks eligible model-provider pairs, then executes and evaluates within explicit limits.
Customers and providers can supply compute. ColomboAI does not need to own the underlying infrastructure.
The console exposes route, usage, policy, and operational details through one production surface.
Use managed providers, BYOK, private infrastructure, or eligible local execution without coupling application logic to one model vendor.