The big win for those small local models to me isn't knowledge based (I'll leave that to the large hosted models), but more so a natural language interface that

The big win for those small local models to me isn't knowledge based (I'll leave that to the large hosted models), but more so a natural language interface that can then dispatch to tool calls and summarize results. I think this is where they have the opportunity to shine. You're totally right that these are going to be awful for knowledge.