Open frontier models only pay off for enterprises that can buy GPU servers
Paimaamu · x · 2026-09-21
The author argues that open models at frontier level are mainly useful for enterprises that can afford to buy their own GPU servers — implying the real barrier to open-weight adoption is compute cost, not model access.
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