Yeah, a 7B foundation model is of course going to be worse when expected to perform on every task. But finetuning on just a few tasks? Depending on the task,

Yeah, a 7B foundation model is of course going to be worse when expected to perform on every task. But finetuning on just a few tasks? Depending on the task, it's totally reasonable to expect that a 7B model might eke out a win against stock GPT4. Especially if there's domain knowledge in the finetune, and the given task is light on demand for logical skills.