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Open Weight Models Are Turning Inference Into A Control Point

Open-weight model providers Fireworks, Baseten, and Together AI collectively raised $3.8 billion in four weeks, signaling that inference has become a key control point in the AI industry rather than a shift of enterprise budgets away from frontier models.

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Open Weight Models Are Turning Inference Into A Control Point
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By Janakiram MSV, Senior ContributorSource:

Forbes InnovationFireworks, Baseten and Together AI raised $3.8B in four weeks. The funding proves

inferenceis a control point, not that enterprise AI budgets have moved off frontier models.Get AI news in your inbox

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