Economic Perspectives: Open Weights Reshape AI Innovation and Profit Distribution

Economic analyses suggest that open weights will not ruin AI innovation but will shift profit distribution, with innovators capturing only 2.2% of social value. The true moat for AI businesses lies in unrecorded real-world data and domain-specific reliability rather than just model weights.

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