AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful
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OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools
To cater to the broadest possible market, OpenAI and Anthropic build ever-larger models capable of making a brute-force attempt to tackle almost any task.
These models are the Swiss Army Knives of the AI world. When used with sufficient force, they can do almost any job … but nobody needs a frontier class model to summarize emails, draft replies, or summarize meeting notes.
It's cheaper and easier to train a small domain-specific model that can run dozens of instances of on a single accelerator. Plus, building your own means you don’t have to worry about your apps rambling about goblins when OpenAI replaces an aging but still beloved model with a new one — or Uncle Sam decides your model of choice is a bit too dangerous for general consumption.
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