Honestly, the thing that will probably kill LLMs the hardest is someone writing a small language model that fits in JavaScript in a browser and hits comparable benchmarks.
Why bother with all those GPUs and energy usage if your Raspberri Pi could get comparable results?
If anyone is thinking about smol models, one should go sniff around the Hugging Face Smol Models Research first. https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB
Having said that though, I know some like the idea of a smol model, but then they get annoyed when the usability tradeoff is lack of general knowledge/needing to do tool use. Witness the reception of OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b for example.
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