How many developers here don't see a difference between the latest LLMs and SLMs they can run on their own computer? I tried running a smaller model locally, and it's not usable for me.
I know people like to "predict" things, so that if they happen they can then say "I am a visionary, I predicted it" and start their blog posts with "as I predicted long ago (because I am a visionary), ...".
> The research report estimates that the addressable market in the US for SLMs has grown to about $10tn or one-third of the entire US GDP of $30tn. There isn’t much left for LLMs to thrive in, and every year, their advantage over SLMs is shrinking.
I stopped counting the number of times "estimates" said that a market would absolutely explode, and it absolutely didn't. Those are in the business of being a broken clock.
If something better comes, it will be better. Sure. And we would like to have something better, because it would be better.