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Open source
Open-weight models, their licences and hardware needs, and when running your own model makes sense for a European company.
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Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 Markets · Open source
Nvidia bought Hugging Face and Stripe bought OpenRouter. The neutral middle of AI is for sale.
In fifteen days, the biggest hub for open models and the biggest independent model router both agreed to join much larger companies. Businesses that relied on them for neutrality should plan for a different kind of dependency.
Open source · Models
The best open model in the world is now Chinese, and it comes with conditions
Moonshot AI released the weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model that sits a few places behind the best American systems. For European companies it opens a real option, with a license and a hardware bill attached.