Pretty remarkable what’s happening with open weights AI right now. We’re seeing models achieve SOTA results on specific tasks, and getting close to frontier on some areas of coding and other domains.
The more that open weights is able to maintain only a marginal gap from the frontier, instead of a widening gap, the more value that can be created with AI.
Incidentally, this is actually fine for the frontier labs as well; if we can lower the cost of an overall task then AI usage goes up in general. You’re still likely using frontier models for planning, orchestration, reviewing, and other parts of work.
But this is all very good for the applied layer of AI, which is now in a great position to cost optimize workloads with cheaper models or use tailored open models post-trained for specific tasks to improve performance.
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