Harvey, Abridge, Ramp and Rogo turn to open-weight or in-house models to cut reliance on frontier labs
nmasc_ · x · 2026-09-22
Bloomberg reports that a wave of AI startups — including Harvey, Abridge, Ramp and Rogo — are embracing open-weight models or training their own, aiming to reduce expensive dependence on frontier labs.
The trend signals that as open-weight models close the capability gap, enterprise customers increasingly treat vendor independence and inference cost control as core engineering and procurement strategy.
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