A new mantra for AI models: ‘good enough’ is good enough

• More and more AI companies are moving away from pursuing the largest, most-advanced models. 
• Some are betting enterprise customers will prioritize affordability over cutting-edge technology.  
• Microsoft, Google, Apple, and OpenAI recently released smaller, cheaper AI models. 

When Databricks launched DBRX, its flagship AI foundation model, earlier this year it was accompanied by a press release touting how much better it performed on a host of benchmarks compared to competitors. In particular, it beat OpenAI’s GPT 3.5, a model that was released two years earlier, an eternity in AI years.