A post argues open-weight models are useful as big companies warm up to openness
Mononofu · x · 2026-07-25
A post pushes back on the idea that the author wants to ban open-weight models, while arguing that open models can be genuinely useful.
- The main point is that some companies with a long history of being anti-open-source are now publicly embracing openness.
- It is an industry-positioning comment about open-weight models and corporate rhetoric, not a product announcement.
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