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Open Models Are 4.4 Months Behind the Frontier. That Is Not Your Gap.

A Mozilla analysis put the open to closed capability gap at about 4.4 months, and it went round the local AI world as good news. It is good news. It is also being read as something it does not say, because the open model doing the catching up is 2.78 trillion parameters and will never see the inside of your computer.

September 17, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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