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Happy 2026.
Remember back in '24, when everyone said, "Don't build a wrapper around GPT-4, OpenAI will just crush you"?
They were wrong.
The story of 2025 wasn't the dominance of the Foundation Models. It was the revenge of the "Thick Wrapper."
We saw generalist models (like the O-series or Claude) hit a plateau. They became commodities, cheap, fast, and available to everyone. But a generalist model cannot navigate a complex legal merger or a specific hospital triage protocol.
The "Vertical Moat" has arrived.
The winners this year weren't the people who built the best model. They were the people who built the best Context Layer.
At Attri, we stopped competing on "intelligence." We started competing on "infrastructure." A 7-billion parameter model that has access to your specific legal database and follows your specific compliance rules will beat a trillion-parameter generalist model every single time.
The prediction for 2026? The "Model" becomes irrelevant. It’s just the engine block, nobody cares who made the engine, they care about the car.
This year, don't ask "which model are we using?" Ask "what proprietary data are we feeding it?"
Let's build!