How does one know these lesser known ones are any good? Just surface level reasoning (I don't know much) would suggest without the budget and massive datasets that players like OpenAI use, they could not possibly compete on end product without smarter learning algos, and I never see anyone claiming that sort of thing. Obviously can test oneself, but curious what simple answer to this normie concern would be

It makes me laugh to feed this chart into one of the top name models and have it recommend qwen.