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title: Day 3 of Green, Efficient AI is live — Right-Size the Model.
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date: 2026-05-22
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summary: Day 3 of Green, Efficient AI is live — Right-Size the Model. One principle, written for everyone who builds, funds, designs, operates, or uses AI. A frontier model summarising a meeting transcript is a Ferrari delivering a pizza. It works. It also consumes an…
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Day 3 of Green, Efficient AI is live — Right-Size the Model.

One principle, written for everyone who builds, funds, designs, operates, or uses AI.

A frontier model summarising a meeting transcript is a Ferrari delivering a pizza.  
It works. It also consumes an order of magnitude more energy, water, and cost than a small model that would have done the same job indistinguishably to the end user.

And sometimes the honest answer is not a smaller model. It is no model.

The smallest technology that solves the task is the right one. Not the most powerful. Not the newest. Not the one the demo used.

Green Software Foundation