Open Source AI Is Lapping Big Tech – The Numbers Prove It Benchmarks Tell a Brutal Story Meta dropped Llama 3 405B in April 2024 and it hit 88.6 on the MMLU benchmark. That sits within 1.2 points of GPT-4 Turbo while running fully on-prem or on rented H100 clusters. Closed models from Microsoft and Google still require API calls at $.01–$.03 per 1k tokens. The open weights version drops that...