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    Articlevia Substack July 20, 2026

    You can't build a moat around a model

    You can't build a moat around a model

    A short explainer on open-weights versus closed models, built on Ben Werdmuller's argument that a model has no real moat and the Hacker News thread around it. My conclusion: the durable work is your data, your way of testing whether the output is right, and how quickly you could swap models.

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