Open models trail frontier by six months, but that matters less than you think
latkins · x · 2026-11-14
Speaking on the closing panel at the Open Intelligence Summit, Arcee AI's latkins argued open models lag the frontier by roughly six months — but that matters less than most think: for a task never done before, use a closed model; for something you run daily or weekly, open will do. latkins later re-shared the quote, adding he's 'kind of right'.
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