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Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier

Hacker News | Nov 6, 2026 | kevin_hu

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An open-weight model is the best buy at 3% of budgets. At the end of every quarter since 2024, open models held at least 6% of budgets. Closed labs can distill their own frontier models.

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