Open-Source Models Squeezing Frontier Profits
mchiang0610 · x · 2026-07-10
The post shared news about Ollama's upcoming appearance on CNBC, with topics including the "post-frontier era" and the "breakthrough moment for open-source AI." The cited content mentions views that over the next 18 to 24 months, more than 90% of tokens could come from open-weight models, squeezing the profit margins of frontier models. Meanwhile, enterprises are shifting towards downloadable, controllable AI models.
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