> Including you and me?

I don't know about you but I would love to get my hands on a raw frontier base model - and a 16 node galaxy blackhole supercluster to talk to it. the capabilities currently being loboptimized for are just a narrow market-shaped slice that cheaper models can distill a competitive subset of but the untapped power of the base is a true technical moat.

about the benchmarks: the difference between a distilled competitive subset and the untapped base might be the difference that matters in any given task