Open-Source LLMs

Open-source LLMs are large language models whose weights are published, so anyone can download, run, and fine-tune them without paying a vendor per call.

Think Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma.

They've gotten good. In 2026 the strongest open models trade blows with the closed flagships on coding and reasoning. "Open weights" usually means you get the model, not the full training data.

Why it matters for the ChatGPT funnel

For most of it, it doesn't.

Your buyers are not running a self-hosted model in a garage. They're typing into ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. That's where the commercial intent lives, and that's where you either get picked or you don't.

The one place open-source LLMs touch your funnel: your own team can use them to crank out content, ad variants, and landing pages cheaply. That's the vibe-marketing angle, not a demand channel.

How drio fits

You don't pick the model. The buyer's assistant does.

drio sits inside those assistant conversations and turns the moment of intent into a booked meeting, pay-per-lead. Whether the answer came from a closed or open model, drio is the app that gets chosen and captures the lead.