Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says "advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams"; ESTC closed down 8.70%
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A 230M‑parameter model outperforming 4× larger peers on data extraction and running on phones, laptops, and robots is another data point that small, specialized models will eat a lot of enterprise workloads. If you’re defaulting to frontier LLMs for structured data tasks, you’re likely overpaying on latency, cost, and deployment complexity.
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