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The Open-Weights Endgame: What Free Frontier Models Do to Pricing Power

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The Open-Weights Endgame: What Free Frontier Models Do to Pricing Power

Open weights do not commoditize AI. They relocate the toll booth to compute, distribution, and evaluation, and reshape who captures the AI margin.

8 Aug 2026 11 min read

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