State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
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2. Attention ≠ Adoption 3. Open weights shift where value accumulates 4. Qwen has become the community's base model 5. Small models remain the practical layer 6. Agents are the new user Looking forward Notes on method In the AI world, time feels compressed. A few months after our spring report in our biannual analysis worked through the ecosystem, there are quite a few findings that we have observed until this summer. This report lays out these observations from January to Augus...
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