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Three Trillion vs Thirty Billion

August 18, 2026

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Nico's math, stated flat on camera: "The frontier models are nearly three trillion parameters. This thing is nearly 30 billion." Nobody's confirmed the three-trillion side of that claim — but the smaller model's performance numbers on screen are less than six months old. Watch him make the case anyway.

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