In theory yes, a small(er) model to do almost anything exists in the problem space of all models.

The problem is getting to that model state. Evolution found these models by creating a ridiculously huge number of experiments with the cut off function being 'can it breed before it dies on a limited number of calories'.

At least at this point it doesn't seem likely we can find a shortcut beyond that necessary computation. Evolution did it with time and parallelism. We do it differently with scale and rapid energy usage.