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Open weights are quietly closing up – and that's a problem

The article discusses how open-weight AI models are increasingly adopting restrictive licenses and practices, undermining the principles of openness that made them valuable. This trend threatens research reproducibility, community innovation, and the democratization of AI development. The author argues that without genuine transparency, the term "open weights" becomes misleading, potentially concentrating power back to big tech companies.

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