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Matt Simpson on 2026-07-20 06:28 pm

An open-weight AI strategy is the right one. The closed, locked down, API-only, "we are Frontier" eliteness is doomed to failure, and at best, will result in hollowed out companies eventually piggybacking off the work of others instead of innovating. Most ubiquitous tech we all use today, under the hood or at its origin is open source or based on open source.

This article isn't taking into account Gemma, GPT-OSS, and others. There are lots of good open-weight non-Chinese models, but China is releasing the best ones right now.

I thought this was interesting: "American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing."

https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.

Matt Simpson on 2026-07-16 01:07 pm

It absolutely sucks being in the server infrastructure buying market right now. The costs are completely out of control. No one can afford this. It's almost all BS they're blaming it on the #AI industry. No, this is simply capitalism gone wrong and an aggressive push by industry to force organisations into renting everything.