AI: Off the Charts
THE SO WHAT
Western open-source models plus a renewed personal assistant race point to a split stack—closed models for frontier performance, open models for control and cost. Teams should be testing both paths now, with clear criteria for when to switch workloads between them as capabilities and licensing evolve.
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