Open-source models already power most production AI workloads, investor says
RihardJarc · x · 2026-07-24
Rihard Jarc argues that most real-world production AI workloads already run on non-SOTA models, and that open-source models have been essential to that reality.
- He says restricting access to open-source models would be a mistake and could leave the market effectively controlled by Anthropic and OpenAI.
- In his view, long-term value would shift away from data centers and semis toward the model layer, because if only two major buyers of compute remain, even chip vendors lose leverage.
- The quoted thread he responds to makes the complementary point that once AI quality is good enough for a use case, marginal frontier gains do not always justify switching to the most advanced model in production.
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