State of Open Source AI report: open models trail the frontier by 4.4 months
airplanesandOS · hn · 2026-09-15
State of Open Source AI v1.1
A HN-trending PDF report quantifying the open-source AI gap: open-weight models lag the frontier by roughly 4.4 months.
- Published at stateofopensource.ai
- Measures the open vs closed frontier gap as a time delta rather than benchmark scores
- HN discussion debates whether the gap is shrinking and how fairly it is measured
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