Open-source labs face a three-order-of-magnitude funding gap
qinzytech · x · 2026-09-14
Continuing the same thread, the author argues that free frontier-level open weights would be a huge blow to open-source labs like Thinking Machines and Reflection AI, which face a three-order-of-magnitude funding gap versus the top labs.
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