Open-weight models reach parity on enterprise retrieval benchmarks
Recent open-weight releases match closed models on grounded QA and long-context retrieval, giving sovereignty-sensitive deployments a credible on-premise path.
The benchmark gap on retrieval-augmented tasks has narrowed to noise. For workloads where data cannot leave the building, open weights are now a first-choice architecture.
Why it matters
Government and regulated enterprise can run grounded assistants inside their own perimeter without sacrificing answer quality.
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