Open source closes the gap with closed labs: Quality gap now just months
togethercompute · x · 2026-08-15
Together AI cites Tri Dao's remarks at ICML, stating that open-source models are rapidly closing the gap with closed-source labs, lagging by only a few months in quality. Furthermore, advancements in the serving stack (kernels, inference engines, speculative decoding) are delivering compounding improvements.
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