“Frugal AI” might be the more important story than frontier models.

Smaller, open-weight systems → less compute, less energy, more sovereignty.
And crucially: deployable where Big Tech infrastructure doesn’t exist.

AI is not just about scale — it’s about who can actually use it.

https://restofworld.org/2026/frugal-ai-big-tech/
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