The performance gap between open and closed AI models has narrowed to roughly 4-6 months.

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• The gap between frontier AI capabilities and publicly available ones is at most a few months, not years. SKSayash Kapoor21 May 2026
• The capabilities gap between open models and the closed models available to users has been decreasing over the last three years. NLNathan Lambert21 Sept 2026
• AI research at OpenAI is an order of magnitude or more harder than metrics, benchmarks, or forecasts suggest. RNRamez Naam27 Sept 2026
• The capability gap between smaller, locally-run AI models and larger models will narrow over time as compute becomes more accessible. JSJon Seager27 Apr 2026
• The performance gap between closed-source and open-weight language models is closing. SRSebastian Ruder15 Apr 2024

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