Comment by PunchyHamster
11 hours ago
> The only way the U.S. keeps that edge is to prevent distillation.
For how long ? year ? how long till model that is year behind will be fine for 90%+ use cases ?
11 hours ago
> The only way the U.S. keeps that edge is to prevent distillation.
For how long ? year ? how long till model that is year behind will be fine for 90%+ use cases ?
Putting aside agentic coding, that is to say, if you judge LLMs as a consumer technology (an old-fashioned idea for the inward-looking tech industry admittedly), then open weights LLMs, even quite small ones like Gemma 4, can likely already satisfy 90% of applications with a bit of help from search and browse tools.
Much of the arms race for better LLMs exists to satisfy only the IT industry's needs.