A good example of why open weight and open source models are important - they permit users to fine-tune specific use cases with greater cost…

A good example of why open weight and open source models are important - they permit users to fine-tune specific use cases with greater cost efficiency. As has been the case in other technology markets, these open models will drive lower costs for all consumers and enhance security. We were able to fine tune an open weight model (Qwen3.5-9B) on proprietary internal data at @coinbase, and it out performed frontier models, at much lower cost and speed, for a specialized task (fraud prevention in this case). I think we'll see more of this pattern inside compani…

Source: Clem Delangue (X) | 2026-10-11