The Model Is the Wrong Thing to Own | Hamza Mostafa
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Enterprises should own their intelligence. That means accumulating domain knowledge every new model can inherit, not training a model of their own.
Everywhere you look, enterprises are being told to own their intelligence. I agree. But too many companies have mistaken owning intelligence for owning a model. For many teams, ownership now means running an open model, training it on proprietary data, and escaping someone else's API. That is one way to own a model. It is not how a company owns intelligence. An enterprise should own the part no model provider can supply: the knowledge of how its business actually works. It should build a loop that makes that knowledge compound. Models keep leapfrogging Frontier capability isn't…
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