# Open-Source AI Matches Frontier Performance for $400, Exposing $12,000 Secrets

- slug: open-source-ai-matches-frontier-performance-for-400-exposing-12000-secrets
- date: 2026-03-24
- category: Artificial Intelligence

The Allen Institute for AI has released an open-source coding agent that it says can match the performance of proprietary systems at a fraction of the training cost, and it does something the big labs have not: it publishes everything, including the training data, the model weights, and the exact...

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