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The cost argument is wrong. Compare Gemini 2.5 Pro to Gemma 4 31B.
Released only 10 months later, a tiny open-weights model outperforms what was once SOTA. Fable and 5.6 Sol will be outperformed by laptop-class models next year.
I’ve always used lagom.nl/lcd-test/
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Thanks for sharing, this was a great read.