Complete nonsense.

> they provide a better or at least as good an answer as LLMs in 62.5% of the cases.

Are we going to scrap hospitals because a vet could do the job 62.5% of the time?

The economics also point away from everyone buying a big RAM Mac that sits idle 99% of the time. SLM and own hardware sounds efficient and “free” but it is nothing of the sort when you factor everything in (and forfeit the sharing efficiencies of API)

SLMs are great esp for task specific fine tunes but this take isn’t it