{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"HorizonAid AI News","home_page_url":"https://ai.horizonaid.org","feed_url":"https://ai.horizonaid.org/feed.json","description":"HorizonAid AI News — daily reporting on AI models, research, policy, enterprise adoption, and how artificial intelligence is changing humanitarian and development work.","items":[{"id":"https://ai.horizonaid.org/article/2026-09-20-open-source-models-narrow-enterprise-gap/","url":"https://ai.horizonaid.org/article/2026-09-20-open-source-models-narrow-enterprise-gap/","title":"Open-source models narrow the enterprise gap as humanitarian agencies weigh deployment","content_text":"Open-weight frontier models are closing the gap with closed labs on core benchmarks, lowering the cost of private and on-device deployment for humanitarian and development organisations — while governance questions stay open.","summary":"Open-weight frontier models are closing the gap with closed labs on core benchmarks, lowering the 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