Open-Weight Models Now Outpace Closed Rivals In Production AI Traffic
Mozilla's report puts the performance gap at 3.3% within two years, with $24.8 billion in savings left unrealized.
- Chinese models captured about 45% of weekly OpenRouter traffic by April 2026.
- Inference prices fell 50-fold in three years, from $20 to $0.40 per million tokens.
- Only 51% of open-model teams reach production, versus 63% of closed-model teams.
Why it matters: Downloading the model costs nothing now; running it in production still requires money and skill others control.
Mozilla - The State of Open Source AI (stateofopensource.ai) ↗ · Jul 17, 20267/17/26 · ✓ Checked✓ Check