Most work now runs fine on open-weight models, author says ahead of Qwen 4
drdanielbender · x · 2026-11-13
The author argues open-weight models are now well established: despite a visible gap to closed frontier models on benchmarks, the top four open models can already handle plenty of useful work. His workflow: reserve closed frontier models for the hardest tasks, run most workloads on open-weight models in more private setups.
He's especially looking forward to Qwen4 open-weight releases reshuffling the chart — Alibaba teased Qwen 4 earlier this month, and Flash-Next already previews its new architecture.
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