Microsoft, Google, and Amazon quietly drop support for open weights, sparking monopoly fears
Plane_Garbage · reddit · 2026-08-17
Supporters of open models note that enterprise-trusted providers like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have recently stopped serving open-weight models such as DeepSeek V4, Kimi k3, MiniMax m3, and Qwen 3.7+.
Given these giants' investments in OpenAI and Anthropic, the author suggests this move signals an acceleration toward a monopoly, particularly for compliance-heavy applications.
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