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The Full Circle
In this episode, Stephen Forte explores how enterprise AI is coming full circle — from the cloud back to the enterprise.
Open-source models match frontier: Five independent model families now match or beat closed models on standard benchmarks. A fine-tuned 3.8B model outperformed GPT-4o on financial NLP at 28x lower cost.
Hardware makes local AI practical: Apple Mac Studio runs 671B-parameter models for $14K. NVIDIA Project DIGITS handles 200B parameters for $3K. On-premise inference costs $0.11/M tokens vs $2.00 cloud — 18x cheaper.
Mistral Forge and the model-as-asset thesis: Mistral closed…
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