Frontier AI Is a Ferrari. Most Companies Need a Model Y | Turing CEO

Open-weight models now trail the frontier by just 3-6 months, letting enterprises build sovereign AI for core workflows while renting frontier intelligence elsewhere.

• From benchmarks to RL environments: Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth says 2026's shift is from "helping AI master tests" to simulated RL environments engineered to mirror real enterprise workflows across every role, function, and sector.
• Open-weight gap narrowing: Models like Kimi K3, DeepSeek, and Qwen are now roughly 3-6 months behind the frontier, aided by distillation from stronger teacher models, letting enterprises build sovereign AI.

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