@ClementDelangue: Narrative violation: according to @Stanford research, local models can answer 71.3% of real-world chat and reasoning qu…
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Stanford research shows local models now accurately answer 71.3% of real-world queries, up from 23.2% in 2023, suggesting most tasks don't need frontier models and the future is multi-model with local, open-source models for majority workloads.
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Narrative violation: according to @Stanford research, local models can answer 71.3% of real-world chat and reasoning queries accurately, up from 23.2% in 2023. Obviously at a fraction of the cost and energy consumption of frontier APIs.
The obvious conclusion: you don’t need a frontier model for most tasks. The future is multi-model: local, open-source, smaller and cheaper for the majority of workloads, frontier APIs when no other choices!
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