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Simon Mo
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How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
Elena BurgerMatt BornsteinSimon Mo
vLLM has become the execution layer linking more than 1,000 open-weight model architectures to GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, Google, Amazon, Intel, and others, making inference a strategic systems layer.Open weights increasingly offer controllable latency, data, security, and fine-tuning rather than merely cheaper tokens, while licensing and moderation pressures test whether the ecosystem can fund frontier development and trusted specialized use cases.