Investor: Software CEOs not offering open-weight model SKUs are asleep at the wheel
hardimanjames · x · 2026-09-16
An investor argues every software company should offer open-weight models as a SKU now instead of waiting for labs to set the pace of AI progress.
- Pharma and banks are already adopting open-weight models for margins and to drop revocable lab API dependencies
- COGS-conscious AI natives and tech companies are doing the same
- Most earlier attempts failed because open-weight models weren't good enough — that has changed
- "Pacing the frontier" is framed as the best invitation incumbents ever got: commoditize intelligence that already exists
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