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Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost.

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Ars Technica previewed a Mozilla report finding that paying for frontier AI models provides about a four-month capability lead at roughly five times the cost.

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“Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.”
Ars Technica AI, 15 Sept 2026, 12:00.

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