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Articlevia Substack July 20, 2026
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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