Open Source AI Is Booming. The Money Is in Everything Around the Model.
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The model is free. The bill isn't — and that's the whole open-source AI business model. Everyone keeps announcing "open" models like the download is the product. It isn't. The weights are free; everything that turns a download into something a real company can actually run is where the money change…
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- 2026-11-04 21:57 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Open Source AI Is Booming. The Money Is in Everything Around the Model.