'The frontier labs will keep owning discovery. Open source will increasingly own production.' Insightful take on a tired topic 'When you're …

"The frontier labs will keep owning discovery. Open source will increasingly own production." Insightful take on a tired topic "When you're running AI agents in production for customer service, latency makes or breaks the product. A conversation where every turn takes 8 seconds is not a product anyone will use. So you need small, fast models. Each model call does need to know the capital of Lithuania or high school physics. But small models out of the box aren't good enough for the quality bar our customers hold us to. They only get there through heavy fine-tuning on the exact task. The frontier labs don't really sell this combination. You can't fine-tune their best models the way we need to, and their small models aren't ours to shape. Small + fine-tuned means open weights. The cost savings are real but secondary, and enterprise comfort with self-hosted models is a nice side effect, not the reason."

Source: Clem Delangue (X) | 2026-07-06