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i’m seeing SO many US companies shift away from frontier models to open source in the last 4 weeks. cost and privacy are big factors but mor…
i’m seeing SO many US companies shift away from frontier models to open source in the last 4 weeks. cost and privacy are big factors but more so people are realising fine-tuning and training their own
i’m seeing SO many US companies shift away from frontier models to open source in the last 4 weeks. cost and privacy are big factors but more so people are realising fine-tuning and training their own models have certain advantages big labs can’t necessarily offer them. bridgewater using thinking machines models, jane street running models locally on their own gpu cluster, airbnb using chinese open models openrouter usage of chinese models specifically is through the roof. NEW: Thomson Reuters wanted to rely less on Claude. So it built its own AI model off Alibaba's Qwen. TR's CTO says using frontier labs for intelligence, instead of building on open source, is like renting a house.
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Source: Clem Delangue (X) | 2026-08-25