Closed-Source Labs Shift Stance on Open Source
rdesh26 · x · 2026-07-19
The author points out an ironic trend: now that open-source models are genuinely catching up to the performance of frontier labs, these closed-source labs are changing their narrative to claim that "open source is dangerous," despite previously praising the open-source approach.
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