Comment by GaggiX
9 hours ago
If you don't need SOTA or near SOTA there are plenty of dirt cheap models, just look at Gemma 4 31B on Openrouter.
9 hours ago
If you don't need SOTA or near SOTA there are plenty of dirt cheap models, just look at Gemma 4 31B on Openrouter.
For all of the use cases being hyped you really do, and you actually need something much better than the SOTA models to do what we are being told can be done.
The small models are useful for small things like summarizing text or search but not much else.
Yeah a lot of AI hype is look at the amazing new thing our new model can do! Like Google at this event. But when pressed about its pricing reality the answer is “use a worse cheaper model”?? Real convincing argument there
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