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Is open-weight really 90% as good at 10% of the cost? Checking IBM's claim against list prices

TL;DR On IBM's Q3 2026 earnings call, CEO Arvind Krishna said open-weight models now deliver about "90 percent as effective" results at "anywhere from 25 percent to 10 percent of the token cost of the frontier models", and that most businesses can build useful AI infrastructure in "two or three rac…

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  1. 2026-10-23 13:25 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Is open-weight really 90% as good at 10% of the cost? Checking IBM's claim against list prices

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