Will small models' quadrillions of tokens outquality Opus 5.5? One bet says soon
LesaunH · x · 2026-10-17
- LesaunH predicts frontier companies' quadrillions of tokens from small models will soon surpass Opus 5.5's token quality
- He sees most of AI's coming immensity arising from this mass-inference-on-small-models route rather than flagship models
- A speculative one-liner touching the small-model-scale-vs-frontier-model tension, without supporting data
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