Given the speed at which smaller models are getting more capable, their "land" moat may not be defendable for long.

as long as they have more power than your Mac Mini does to dump into each prompt, they'll have their moat. it's become proof of work.

Not my experience, with a couple of 7900XT that is a 4 year old card by the way, you can run qwen 3.6 at home. Which for most intends and purposes is comparable to sonnet 4.6

They have live tracker you can follow https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

I've been using this one: https://issinfo.net/artemis.html

Better information density.