Open models now serve 78% of agentic traffic on Vercel's gateway, up from 30% in 13 weeks
togethercompute · x · 2026-10-02
Together highlighted a talk by Yogish Baliga, "From Vim (:wq) to 'You're absolutely right!'", tracing 20+ years of software engineering evolution, with three takeaways:
- Open-weight models have closed the gap with closed models for most use cases
- Open models often match closed-model quality with multiple passes
- Agentic workloads already run mostly on open models: share on Vercel's AI Gateway jumped from 30% to 78% in 13 weeks
Conclusion: the future of software engineering looks like it'll be built on open models.
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