"Why are we bullish on Open Source AI? Llama 3 and Mistral are proving that you don't need a massive closed API bill to get state-of-the-art reasoning. Privacy-first, local AI is coming to the enterprise."
The Deep Dive
Closed models (OpenAI, Anthropic) are excellent for prototyping, but for scaled deployment involving sensitive PII or IP, open weights are superior. They offer lower latency (when hosted correctly), zero data leakage risk, and fine-grain control over the inference parameters.