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October 16, 2026

What Vercel's AI Gateway Data Says About Open Weights in Production

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Friday, October 16, 2026

What Vercel's AI Gateway Data Says About Open Weights in Production

Vercel published real production data showing open-weight models now handle 71.5% of AI Gateway tokens but only 23% of spend, AWS shipped a "Trust in Depth" framework for giving agents more autonomy without losing control, and Lenny Rachitsky actually ran Meta's new Muse Wonder model through real coding tasks instead of taking the benchmark claims at face value.

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