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Open source AI models just hit 41% of Hugging Face downloads — and the real cost gap is 90% or more. Here's what that means for your business. The numbers moved fast this week. Chinese open-weight models now dominate downloads, the quality gap versus closed models has shrunk to 3.3%, and a new repo opens on Hugging Face every seven seconds. Half of the Fortune 500 is already running open source models in production. Isar walks through the new frontier open models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4, Thin...
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