# Small Models Have Arrived

DevFeed: [Small Models Have Arrived](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/small-models-have-arrived-37188.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived>)

Author: Calvin French-Owen

Published: 2026-08-26T12:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Calvin French-Owen](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/calvin-french-owen.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [Users](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/users.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [consumer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consumer.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [fast](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fast.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that fast, inexpensive, capable small models have improved enough to make consumer AI applications more viable. It also suggests these models can handle much of the responsive, incremental work that businesses perform, while reducing inference costs.

## Source excerpt

The fast/cheap/good-enough models have quietly gotten good. That unlocks consumer AI, and most of the "token spewer" work that actually runs a business.