The rise of deep model customization: the model factory, not the model, is the durable asset
bigdata · x · 2026-10-21
- A shift across enterprise projects: teams now treat the base model as replaceable. Thomson Reuters expects to restart from newer open models as they appear, and C3 AI has repeated its process across five generations.
- Cursor reused its existing training machinery for Composer 2.5, showing the pipeline outlives any single checkpoint.
- The takeaway: the durable asset is the model factory — data, evals, and training workflows — not any one model.
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