Open Models Take 10x Effort in Prod, Dev Reverts to Closed Models

bindureddy · x · 2026-08-10

AI founder Bindu Reddy expressed frustration over the difficulty of deploying open-source models in production. She noted it takes 10x more time to make them work, citing issues like K3 being super slow, DeepSeek spinning on complex problems, and GLM/Flash lacking visual capabilities. She admitted she is close to giving up and reverting to closed frontier models.

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