User predicts future belongs to small local specialized models

A LocalLLaMA user argues frontier LLM subscriptions lose money at scale, while OCR and segmentation are already handled by single-digit-billion-parameter models. The poster predicts a future of specialized small models that are easier to train and need no datacenter-scale compute, with LLMs unable to do everything at once.

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