The Frontier Went Open
For a long time the very best models lived only behind a big company’s API. When a frontier-grade model ships with open weights, like Kimi K3 this week, the story changes: top-tier quality, but you can pull the weights and run it inside your own walls. Eugene’s crew hauls one aboard their ship out in deep space.
Source: Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence · hf-trending
▶ Animated edition — the characters speak for themselves (Korean audio)
What this means for ThakiCloud
An open frontier model matters less because it is free and more because it is yours to hold. Pull the weights, serve them on on-prem Metis, and you get top-tier reasoning while prompts and data never leave the building, with no per-token bill holding your quality hostage. Paxis takes models like this onto the internal cluster, squeezes cost with quantization and routing, and wires them into its agent fleet. The frontier going open means you can swap your own ship’s engine instead of renting someone else’s.
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