Ethan Mollick: Fine-tuned small models can't outrun frontier AI growth

Ethan Mollick argues that the enterprise 'data sovereignty' movement faces a hard reality: as AI capabilities grow exponentially, keeping fine-tuned small models competitive with larger general models is costly and impractical, and firms would be better served by organizing their internal data.

2026-09-14 ~ 2026-09-14 · 2 related posts

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