Small Language Model Ensembles as the Sustainable Path Beyond Monolithic LLM Scaling
Executive summary The “bigger LLM forever” strategy is running into a wall of economic efficiency, energy/latency constraints, and operational complexity. The evidence does not say “large models stop mattering.” It says: the marginal return on scaling a single monolithic model is increasingly dominated by its worst-case costs, while the business value for most real workloads […]





