arXiv:2604.06217cs.CYcs.AI2026-04

开源大模型性能逼近闭源,推理成本趋近于零,推动AI进入新范式。

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

  • 用开放权重模型实现自主可控的AI能力,摆脱厂商依赖。
  • 2026年美国将Anthropic列为供应链风险,加速行业重构。
  • 适合关注国家战略、算力安全与技术自主的决策者和研究者。

基础模型时代(约2020至2025年)已经结束。驱动该时代的因素已反转:开源模型已达前沿性能,推理成本趋近于零,揭示出一个始终存在的结构性事实——大规模预训练语言模型并非持久的竞争壁垒。2026年2月,美国政府正式将Anthropic列为供应链风险,加速了本已进行中的转型,但并非起因。本文指出,人工智能产业正沿四个维度同步重构:经济上,支撑基础模型估值的循环融资结构瓦解;技术上,预训练扩展范式让位于后训练优化与智能体组合;商业上,应用层集成商取代基础模型公司,后者如今被视为商品;政治上,政府重申其对战略技术的管控角色。这些并非独立冲击,而是同一结构性转变的多面体现。本文进一步主张,开放权重模型是主权控制的反直觉工具:掌握模型权重的政府可自主掌控能力,无需依赖供应商政策、财务持续性或人员授权。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The foundation model era -- roughly 2020 to 2025 -- is over. The forces that defined it have inverted. Open source models have reached frontier performance while inference costs approach zero, exposing what was always structurally true: pre-training large language models at scale is not a durable competitive moat. The US government's formal designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk in February 2026 accelerated a transition already underway -- but did not cause it. The paper argues that the AI industry is restructuring simultaneously along four axes: economic, as the circular financing structure that inflated foundation model valuations collapses; technical, as the pre-training scaling paradigm gives way to post-training optimization and agentic composition; commercial, as application-layer integrators displace the foundation model companies whose commodity they now consume; and political, as the government asserts its historic role as gatekeeper of strategic technology. These are not separate disruptions. They are one structural shift, arriving together. The paper further argues that open-weight models are the counterintuitive instrument of sovereign control: a government that holds the weights commands the capability on its own terms, without dependence on vendor policy, financial continuity, or personnel clearance.

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