Big AI Labs Can’t Delete This. Here’s Why the War for Open Models is Already Over.
The debate over whether big AI labs will ‘allow’ open models is obsolete. By shifting from centralized hubs like Hugging Face to BitTorrent distribution, open-source AI is becoming effectively undeletable. Once a model is seeded across a distributed network, no corporation or regulator can take it away. The power isn’t in releasing weightsโit’s in making them impossible to delete.