Open Models Now Trail the Frontier by Just 7-11 Months

Reddit analysis of historical pairs like GPT-4 vs Qwen2.5-32B shows open models now match frontier capability on consumer hardware within 7-11 months, a lag that keeps shrinking. Together AI, citing Tri Dao at ICML, says open models trail closed ones by only months, with serving stacks advancing rapidly too.

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