“Most start-ups will go hybrid: frontier closed models for the hardest reasoning, open-weight models for the high-volume, latency-sensitive, or privacy-sensitive work. The gap has narrowed enough that open models now deliver most of the capability for a fraction of the cost, so for many production workloads, “good enough, cheaper, and fully under my control” simply wins,” said Upadhyay of Noveum AI.











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