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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 22, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York
European Banks Build on Open-Weight Models at GTC Berlin as Nvidia Pitches Faster AI Factory Deployment
Revolut said it is rebuilding its technology stack on a single in-house foundation model serving an initial 80 million customers, and Nvidia said its modular reference design cuts on-site AI factory deployment from six months to 14 days once site utilities are ready.
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia presented European banks, payment companies and financial data providers that run open-weight models on their own infrastructure, according to the company's blog. Revolut's case was the most specific. The fintech said…
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Open-Weight Models Close the Gap With Closed Frontier Labs
Over the next 3-9 months, open-weight releases with downloadable weights, long context, and strong agentic/coding performance increasingly match closed frontier models on practical work, eroding the closed-lab moat.
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