Investor urges Google to distill Argon into a small model priced at 50% of Luna to top OpenRouter
bindureddy · x · 2026-10-19
Investor Bindu Reddy argues Google has a rare opening to build a killer small model: distill Argon into a super-fast model that beats Luna and DeepSeek, then price it at 50% of Luna — a move he says would instantly put Google on top of the OpenRouter leaderboard. Third-party strategy take, not an official announcement.
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