Similarly, open-weight models will usher in a world where legal and business tasks can be distributed across models and environments. Open-weight, distillation, and locally deployed models are not the same thing, but collectively they are expanding the options for using AI. When will law firms rely on an open-weight model behind their firewall or in their private cloud? But distillation and open-weight models put pressure on the approach and act as yet another accelerant. Their approach has focused on cost efficiency, and they lean more toward open-weight models, which may not require the same data center investment.