smaller models
also referred to as: smaller model
6 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Apr 27, 2024 by Joscha Bach · across every show →
Everything said about smaller models, oldest first
Apr 27, 2024 bullish
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Jul 2, 2025 negative
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Morcos: Test-time compute fundamentally favors smaller models to cut multi-step inference costs
“Test time compute as a paradigm really pushes you towards smaller models, right? Because if your cost of solving a problem is cost of inference times number of thinking steps, and you have to do a lot of thinking steps. Well, now this is like a really like min…”
Feb 12, 2026
Jeff Dean: Capable small models require first building frontier models
“Through distillation, which is a key technique for making the smaller models more capable, you know, you have to have the frontier model in order to then distill it into your smaller model. So it's not like an either or choice. You sort of need that in order t…”
Jul 22, 2026 bullish
Kant: Industry will squeeze far more capability from smaller models via behavior
“We are going to be able to squeeze so much more out of smaller models than I think we had imagined in the industry. Because yes, there's intelligence and larger models are more intelligent. Like no doubt about it. We should continue to scale up. But the behavi…”