Apparatus and methods are disclosed for implementing a copilot as a network of
microservices including specialized large language models (LLMs) or other trained
machine learning (ML) tools. The microservice
network architecture supports flexible, customizable, or dynamically determinable
dataflow. Compared to much larger competing LLMs, comparable or superior performance is achieved for certain tasks, while significantly reducing hardware requirements and computation time. Disclosed examples incorporate
microservices for expansion, retrieval, embedding, and evaluation, in addition to one or more core
microservices. Optionally, intermodal I / O, multiple data repositories, competency qualification, or human feedback can be supported. Multiple core microservices can support varying
client authorizations or cognitive functions. The disclosed architecture supports any major LLM use case and can be deployed on a single compute node with a single GPU. Techniques are disclosed for multi-recursive retrieval, expansion ML tool training, input / output translation at data producers, and qualification of input / output data against copilot competency.