The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights
THE SO WHAT
Open weights just became a declared policy front, not a side argument between labs. If your roadmap depends on open models, you now have cover to lobby and partner in the open-weight bloc rather than waiting on closed API vendors.
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