For a long stretch, the gap between the best closed, proprietary models and the best openly available ones was wide enough that it barely factored into most build decisions — you used the closed frontier model and accepted the cost and lock-in. That gap has been narrowing, and it's changing how ...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/vishva_patel_c457dfa1f167/why-open-weight-models-are-closing-the-gap-with-closed-models-22p0)