Oh, now I see your problem. You confused the pareto frontier with the pure scale frontier. They are very much not the same.

Also, distillation is how most of these smaller models are made from the biggest models. That process largely defines the frontier along most of the curve.

> This also makes it the only open American frontier-level model right now.

I'm not going to keep arguing with you. If you want to keep arguing, go to https://gemini.google.com/. Gemini knows what a frontier model is and it knows that Gemini Nano is fundamentally different from the other Gemini models. For one, it uses the Gemma architecture. And the next version of Gemini Nano is built directly on Gemma 4.

As for your original claim that I quoted, there are other "open American frontier-level models" by your definition. Like Gemma 4.