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The Hardest Unsolved Problems in Open-Weight AI

Four problems in open-weight AI have outlasted every fix proposed for them. Each is backed by a paper's own stated limitation or a documented incident, not a debate position, and none of them has a technical resolution yet.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 23, 2026 · 17 min read

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