SNEAK PEAK - I Saw This AI Efficiency Trend Coming a Mile Away ....

The Qwen 3.5 small model drop just hit and I'm over here sipping coffee like "told you so." If you haven't seen it yet go read Alex Finn's post . Quick summary: Alibaba's Qwen team just dropped a whole family of tiny but powerful models (0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B) that are native multimodal , built with better architecture and scaled RL, and they're straight up competitive with models 10 to 100x their size on real benchmarks. You can now run frontier level intelligence on a $600 Mac Mini . Locally. For free. Forever . No API bills. No rate limits. No "your account has been flagged" nonsense. This is the exact moment I've been building toward since late 2024. I Called It Because Markets Are Brutal (and Predictable) Everyone was drunk on "bigger is better" hype: Trillion parameter models $100M+ training runs AI companies raising at 50 to 100x revenue multiples VCs throwing money at anything with "LLM" in the deck I kept saying the same thing in every founder chat, every Discord, every late night