Open-weight models have ended the foundation model era by eliminating pre-training as a durable moat and enabling sovereign AI control through direct access to model weights.
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The End of the Foundation Model Era: Open-Weight Models, Sovereign AI, and Inference as Infrastructure
Open-weight models have ended the foundation model era by eliminating pre-training as a durable moat and enabling sovereign AI control through direct access to model weights.