Similar trend in open text-to-image models: Flux.1 was 12B but now we have 6B models with much better quality. Qwen Image goes from 20B to 7B while merging the edit line and improving quality. Now that the cost of spot H200s at 140GB came down to A100 levels, you can finally try larger scale finetuning/distillation/rl with these models. Very promising direction for open tools and models if the trend continues.