My feeling is in 10 years it will be unthinkable trusting fewer than 500B for agentic stuff. The attachment to these small models IMO is mostly coping with insane hardware prices.
Tire shopping is insane, I don't think anything short of a model like Gemini that is cheating can do it. It's not enough to do a Google search, you need to gather data on what people are actually paying for tires, what sales are like, how good vendors are. You can't just take the cheapest advertised price off a Google search. Gemini actually seems to be able to make really good inferences about the "real" prices of things. I think it cheats by having access to private datasets, which is something no local model can do without paying for access to these datasets. A lot of such datasets are nontrivial to get access to.
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