Frontier AI Right Now: Big Brains, Small Models, and Smarter Tools
Why the latest “frontier” models matter less than how developers and enthusiasts actually wire them into real‑world agents, apps, and everyday workflows.
What’s happening right now in AI is that the “frontier” part meaning the most powerful general‑purpose models, has hit a kind of plateau, while the action is shifting into two places:
smaller open models you can actually run yourself, and
better tools that turn any model into a useful assistant or “agent.”
In other words, the headline isn’t just “models…
