Open and Closed Source Are Not Opposites: Closed Source Drives Open Source
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-07-19
Supporting open source does not mean rejecting closed source. Closed-source commercial products often pioneer entirely new categories, paving the way for subsequent open-source alternatives. The core demand of the open-source ecosystem is not to eliminate closed source, but to ensure the right of open-source options to exist and thrive.
More from AGI Musings
- FactoryAI’s Enoreyes says model distillation is basically unstoppable — LangChain · 2026-07-21
- Andrew Blumberg says formalization without interpretability is not science — AlexKontorovich · 2026-07-21
- Ken Ono says AI is forcing mathematicians to rethink how discovery works — soumitrashukla9 · 2026-07-21
- Open-source labs could distill a state-of-the-art model to 32GB or 80GB VRAM, the post argues — bookwormengr · 2026-07-21
- Two US companies are now using superintelligence to speed up the next generation of models — yacineMTB · 2026-07-21
- MIT Sloan says information, national security and finance are most exposed to AI — Exp_Mark · 2026-07-21