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Google’s pro models are almost certainly bigger than Openai’s lol

Why would that be? I am curious why do you think that.

E.g. because they are behind on research and so must compensate with size to achieve similar level of intelligence. At least this is what I heard.

For intelligence/size only OpenAI and Anthropic are the frontier. Google has more compute so it can compensate for that with size of the models...

I'd argue Qwen is pushing the Pareto frontier considerably further when you take size into account.

Because TPUs are more efficient, and its cheaper for them to field them in higher quantity since they own the chip.