Industry should open-source last year’s models, says AI commentator
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-26
The argument for “openness” here is blunt: the industry should start by open-sourcing models from a year ago.
The post claims yesterday’s frontier models—Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4o and Grok-4—have already been overtaken by Chinese models, so publishing older weights would still help the ecosystem without giving away current advantage. It frames openness as a net win for the whole field and argues there’s no excuse to keep hiding behind one another.
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