2026 is the year of fine-tuned small models

I've been writing quite a bit about AI the last few years. First, I talked about what LLMs are in the first place : really big Markov chains that have hit a threshold where they appear to be reasoning, to a level of fidelity that it makes no sense to argue about whether they are really "thinking" or not. Computers that can reason about the data they are processing is a brand new thing, and it's…