Open Weights Are Ready for Production. Is Your Stack?

Description and use

<p><em>Panel recap: Kilo by Anaconda × Friendli AI × MiniMax</em></p> <p>For most of the past year, open-weight models lived in the experiment column. Teams tried them, benchmarked them, and kept their production traffic on closed APIs. That is changing fast.</p> <p>We recently co-hosted an evening panel with Friendli AI and MiniMax to talk about that shift. Each panelist represented a different layer of the stack: the agent harness, the model, and the inference engine. The conversation kept returning to one idea. No single layer decides the outcome. They all depend on each other.</p> <p><stro

Problem

<p><em>Panel recap: Kilo by Anaconda × Friendli AI × MiniMax</em></p> <p>For most of the past year, open-weight models lived in the experiment column. Teams tried them, benchmarked them, and kept their production traffic on closed APIs. That is changing fast.</p> <p>We recently co-hosted an evening panel with Friendli AI and MiniMax to talk about that shift. Each panelist represented a different layer of the stack: the agent harness, the model, and the inference engine. The conversation kept returning to one idea. No single layer decides the outcome. They all depend on each other.</p> <p><stro

Outcome

<p><em>Panel recap: Kilo by Anaconda × Friendli AI × MiniMax</em></p> <p>For most of the past year, open-weight models lived in the experiment column. Teams tried them, benchmarked them, and kept their production traffic on closed APIs. That is changing fast.</p> <p>We recently co-hosted an evening panel with Friendli AI and MiniMax to talk about that shift. Each panelist represented a different layer of the stack: the agent harness, the model, and the inference engine. The conversation kept returning to one idea. No single layer decides the outcome. They all depend on each other.</p> <p><stro

Evidence

Open Weights Are Ready for Production. Is Your Stack?

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