Will a small language model ever be as good as Fable 5?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>If you’re not coding, not asking complex logical questions, but still want a model that isn’t completely stupid for casual conversations, are

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi. What do you think is the smallest Open model, as of Spring 2026, that can match/beat OpenAI GPT 4o Mini in the broadest sense possible?</p>

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I read this sub every day and I keep seeing benchmarks and discussions focused almost entirely on tokens/s generation speed. Prompt processing

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Long time Claude Opus user, but after the recent session limit changes by Anthropic, I am seriously considering trying Chinese models for coding.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi. We recently had MoE models as big as 1T and 1.6T total parameters. My expectation on the proportion between total and active parameters so

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I know qwen 3.5 4b is great but a bit too large and miniPCM5 1b is great for agentic use but not so great for multilingual natural language

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just tried Qwen 3.6 27B and honestly… it’s absolutely impressive. The progress in open-source models over the past two years has been kind of

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm currently working on research into AI.</p> <p>It's conceptual research (embedding my own ideas directly into AI weights) and AI security.</p>