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Open-Weight Models

Open-weight AI adoption fell to 11 percent with three new frameworks to fix model portfolios

Open-Weight AI Fell to 11%. Rewrite Your Model Portfolio.

Open-weight models matched proprietary ones on benchmarks, yet enterprise adoption collapsed from 19% to 11%. The problem is not model quality. It is governance and TCO. Three new frameworks shipped since April to fix the portfolio decision layer.

Enterprise open-source model share fell to 11% in 2025 from 19% in 2024, even as open weights reached coding parity

Open-Weight Models Caught Up. Adoption Fell to 11%

Open-weight models matched proprietary ones on code, but enterprise open-source share fell from 19% to 11%. Why the real decision is not open versus closed but a governed selection problem, and the four-gate framework for licensing, cost, and provenance.