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AI × CryptoBearisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 10🔥 8/10

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The End of the Foundation Model Era: Open-Weight Models, Sovereign AI, and Inference as Infrastructure

A research paper argues that the foundation model era (2020-2025) has ended as open-source models reach frontier performance and inference costs decline, fundamentally undermining the competitive moat of large-scale pre-training. The shift is driven by simultaneous restructuring across economic, technical, commercial, and political dimensions, with open-weight models emerging as tools for government sovereignty over AI capabilities.

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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 117/10

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Switchcraft: AI Model Router for Agentic Tool Calling

Switchcraft is a new AI model router specifically designed for agentic tool calling that selects the lowest-cost model while maintaining correctness. The system achieves 82.9% accuracy matching top models while reducing inference costs by 84%, demonstrating that larger models don't consistently outperform smaller ones on function-calling tasks.