[mnicky]

E.g. because they are behind on research and so must compensate with size to achieve similar level of intelligence. At least this is what I heard.

For intelligence/size only OpenAI and Anthropic are the frontier. Google has more compute so it can compensate for that with size of the models...

[snovv_crash]

I'd argue Qwen is pushing the Pareto frontier considerably further when you take size into account.