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Scale volume with open weights, but expect frontier models to dominate spend
◆ 90RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack1mo ago
The massive shift of token volume to open-weight models confirms that production-grade apps are successfully offloading commodity tasks to cheaper infrastructure. However, the spend concentration suggests that for the core reasoning that defines your product, frontier models remain non-negotiable despite their cost.
Takeaways
- Open-weight volume grew 8x in eight months, proving production readiness at scale.
- Frontier models like Claude still command the majority of total AI spend.
- Implement a tiered routing strategy to protect your margins as you scale.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
Open-weight models now handle a majority of tokens on Vercel’s AI Gateway. But Anthropic still takes 64% of the spend.
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