New data: open-weight models are already in production worldwide, and cost isn't the top reason
perilli · x · 2026-09-03
Sharing July data meant to frame NVIDIA's reported acquisition of Hugging Face, the author argues open-weight models are already running in production globally for a wide range of reasons — and cost isn't the top one. The article explores real enterprise preferences in language model choice; the topic was also hot at CrowdStrike Fal.con in Las Vegas.
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