Over the last 18 months we’ve watched Eastern open weights ecosystems evolve differently to Western “premium platform” models. The result is a messy reality most teams are not instrumented for:
> Model portfolios,
> Caching discounts, and
> RAG pipelines spreading across the estate with almost no audit trail.
If you had to fix one thing this quarter, would it be a model gateway, AI observability, or retrieval corpus ownership?