Mode VC Chart: Open Weights vs. Proprietary AI: The Gap Stays at 42 Points
Open weights briefly beat every proprietary model in early 2025 (deepseek-r1); today the best.
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How is this score calculated?
- Weighted across six dimensions, scored 0-100.
- Provenance (25): listed in an official or curated registry.
- Installability (25): a runnable install command beats a declared transport, which beats a source checkout.
- Maintenance (20): recency of the last push; archived entries score zero here.
- Adoption (20): repository stars on a log curve.
- Documentation (10) and description quality (10): parsed manifest or SKILL.md frontmatter, and a real description rather than a placeholder.