Open models are 3 points behind the frontier, but no one ships the data recipe

V1.1 state of open source- OS 4.4 months behind frontier [pdf]

Mozilla's 91-page report lays out open-source AI's strengths and gaps. Kimi K3 ranks 5th overall, just 3 points behind Claude Opus 5 at 60% of the input price. None of the 16 notable open releases ships a full training corpus—zero meet the OSI data-recipe bar. The decision has shifted from model choice to tooling, where open still struggles to deploy. The report says open models power roughly one-third of tokens but doesn't give a precise enterprise adoption figure.

Why it matters: Mozilla's annual open-source AI report brings hard data and sharp judgments, not PR fluff. The Kimi K3 price-performance comparison and the zero-models-pass-OSI-data-standard finding are both concrete hooks; the deployment-is-the-real-bottleneck thesis hits a live nerve. Docke...