Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
A report from Mozilla indicates that the performance advantage of expensive proprietary AI models over cheaper open-source alternatives has narrowed to a lead of roughly four months. While frontier models remain slightly ahead in capability, they currently cost approximately five times more than the open models rapidly closing the gap.
Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.
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