Exceptional writing, capturing the essence of LLM evolution! The imperative shift towards opting for SLMs over LLMs for specific tasks is convincingly portrayed. Even I've delved into a related research area, focusing on innovative techniques such as supervision, parallelization, and scoring functions applied to a chain of SLMs, thereby negating the sole reliance on scaling up model size.

Link to the publication: https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=130661