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The small-model argument hit the front page News
Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen argued that cheap fast models have crossed a usefulness threshold, pricing a personalized-news task he once ran for about a dollar at roughly ten cents, and the essay drew 499 points on Hacker News.
A leading open-model researcher says US open weights may have six months left News
Nathan Lambert of the Allen Institute argues in a widely-read essay that a coming White House executive order could ban or indefinitely delay any open-weights model above roughly GPT-5.5 capability, and that the industry's distillation debate is regulatory capture.