The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Open-source and open-weight AI models are gaining significant market share, with Chinese models dominating downloads on platforms like Hugging Face. This shift suggests that while frontier models remain important for research, production workloads are increasingly moving toward cheaper, customizable alternatives.
For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was fixated on Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight to control who was granted access to them. But while everyone was watching the frontier, developers kept building — and they weren’t waiting around for permission from the Anthropics and OpenAIs of the world.
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