Open weights do not need to win every benchmark.
They just need to make the closed-model premium negotiable.

a very nice article by Chamath.

There's just 4-month capability lag of open-weight models. For many everyday enterprise workloads, being slightly behind the frontier may matter far less than lower costs, deeper customization, control over infrastructure, and keeping proprietary data and workflows inside the company.

we are toward a hybrid market rather than a winner-takes-all outcome.