What is AI orchestration?
AI orchestration is the layer that decides which model handles which task, runs it, and brings the answer back. You stop picking a model by hand for every prompt and let a system pick on measured data instead.
The problem it solves
Once you have more than one model, you have a decision to make on every prompt. The fast local one or the strong remote one. The coder or the generalist. Most people answer that question with a habit, and the habit is usually wrong some of the time. Orchestration turns that guess into a measured choice.
How it works
An orchestrator keeps a picture of what each model is good at, classifies the incoming task, and routes it to the model that scores highest for that kind of work, inside whatever limits you set. The good ones show you who answered and why, so the decision is something you can check rather than trust.
In Soriku that picture is the capability map, built by benchmarking your models on your own hardware. Routing reads the map and dispatches per task. You can read the detail in the capability map and smart routing docs.
Local and remote, one layer
Orchestration is most useful when it treats a model on your laptop and a model in a datacenter the same way: as candidates scored on the same scale. That lets you keep the cheap, private, local work local, and reach for the cloud only when a task earns it.
Questions about orchestration
What is AI orchestration?
It is the layer that decides which AI model handles a task, runs it, and returns the result. Instead of choosing a model by hand for every prompt, an orchestrator routes each task to the best fit based on measured capability and your constraints.
Do I need orchestration if I only use one model?
Less so. Orchestration earns its keep once you have a mix, a fast local model and a strong remote one, or several specialised models. With one model there is nothing to route.
Is AI orchestration the same as an AI gateway?
No. A gateway forwards your request to a provider you already picked. An orchestrator makes the pick for you, on capability and cost, and can run the task on a local model so it never leaves your machine.
Does orchestration add latency?
Soriku classifies a prompt in under five milliseconds and routes from a precomputed map, so the routing decision is effectively free compared to the model call itself.