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Actually Deploying an Open-Weight Model in Production

A permissive-sounding grant still carries a usage threshold, a use policy and a naming rule. What checkpoint you start from, how you adapt it and what you can prove about the result decide what actually ships.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 17 min read

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Building a Multimodal AI Application That Actually Uses Its Inputs

A model that accepts an image is not the same as a model that uses one. A working guide to the decisions that separate the two: API or adapter, what the training pairs must contain, how to test for the unimodal shortcut, and what the tokens actually cost.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 18 min read

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