Prediction: hand-tuned task-specific small models will be where AI makes money
basedjensen · x · 2026-11-03
basedjensen predicts a wave of "hand-tuned" task-specific superhuman small models—these will have real business cases and make money. Deployable AGI, he argues, will be an ensemble of such models orchestrated together by large frontier models.
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