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Line chart showing the performance gap between top open-weight and closed AI models shrinking from 8 to under 2 percentage points

Open-weight models closed the gap to 1.7 points

Open-weight models went from a budget compromise to a default choice. On some benchmarks the gap to the best closed models shrank from 8 points to 1.7 in a year.

Lars Cornelissen · May 15, 2026

Two rising lines showing frontier capability and consumer-hardware capability, with the consumer line trailing by about eight months

Last year's frontier model now runs on a laptop

Frontier AI capability reaches consumer hardware in about eight months. The shrinking gap turns today's hosted-only features into tomorrow's on-device default.

Lars Cornelissen · May 12, 2026