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The Best AI Model May Be the Wrong Business Choice

Do you actually need the best AI model your budget can buy? For a growing number of companies, the answer is no. Reuters reports that cheaper, customizable open-weight models are gaining ground as businesses stop treating frontier capability as the default and start asking a less glamorous question: what produces the right result at the right cost?

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