What's new is "smart" decision models than you can supposedly use on anything without additional training.

If you have a very narrow use case you can train a BERT based decision model on a laptop an hour if you have good data to train it on. It'll answer faster than the roundtrip to clef/jev and use <1gb memory

If you have a very intelligent swiss army knife like hammer, that hammer will adapt to almost any nail, which is a good thing.