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The Sonnet-Class Swap
Most frontier leaders cluster at a Sonnet class that is, for most people, indistinguishable in practice.
How it works
- 1Open models like DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and Qwen can drop straight into that tier.
- 2The surprise: customers on Opus-class models try a Gemma 3 1B, a model small enough to run on a laptop, and find it just works.
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