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Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?

Open models do a third of the world’s AI work and collect four percent of the money. The safety debate is aimed at the wrong target. The real contest isn’t over the weights — it’s over who owns the harness, the memory, and the keys.

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AI Shouldn’t Require a Permission Slip

For one day in June, the best AI in the world had an off switch, and none of its customers held it. American companies didn't lose a product that week — they learned they'd been renting permission all along. The frontier is worth buying that way. The other ninety percent of the work isn't.

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The State of Open Source AI 2026

Open models now match proprietary performance at a sixth of the cost. This is the report on what that vibrant ecosystem actually looks like — who's building, who's running it, who it's reaching. And the surprise inside it: the model isn't where the story is anymore. The infrastructure around it is.

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From UPI to AI

On my way to the India AI Summit with a simple argument: when open-source AI matches proprietary performance at a sixth of the cost, sovereignty stops being ideological and starts being practical.

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