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AI Doesn't Need to Memorize the Times Table Anymore: How Reasoning and Tool Calling Let Small Models Punch Above Their Weight
Apple MLX creator Awni Hannun points out a counterintuitive insight: intelligence-per-watt is skyrocketing partly because models no longer need to memorize answers they can compute. Reasoning and tool calling free up weight space, meaning 5B-15B models might eventually match today's GPT-5.x — though nobody really knows the ceiling yet.