IBM CEO says open AI models are 90% as good as frontier models: 'Why pay 10x more?'
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- 01CEO Arvind Krishna spoke during the third-quarter 2026 earnings call.
- 02Krishna said open-weight models cost 10% to 25% of the token price of frontier models.
- 03He stated open models now offer nearly equal performance at a fraction of the price.
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