This MIT-licensed model is 500 times smaller than GPT-4o and claims to outperform it in some benchmarks. Seems useful for tasks requiring extraction of data to JSON.
A thought-provoking short story by Marshall Brain - founder of HowStuffWorks.com - explores the impact of widespread automation on the job market and presents two contrasting - basically distopian and utopian - visions of humanity's future in a post-robotic world. Just discovered this in another HN comment and thought it's worth its own post.