Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
29-07-2026 17:00 via zdnet.com

Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential

It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
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