SemiAnalysis' Dylan Patel: Chinese labs going closed-source, 'open is dying quickly'
Sentdex · x · 2026-09-23
SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel says multiple Chinese model labs are telling inference providers their next models won't be open source and will instead be licensed. 'Open is dying quickly, unfortunately,' he warns — a notable shift if labs like Qwen or DeepSeek move away from open weights.
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