Is the future of AI selling hardware for Open Source/Models?
Summary
A commentary speculating that the future of AI may shift toward selling affordable hardware to run open-source local models, noting that companies like Meta, Google, and Nvidia support open weights while OpenAI and Anthropic oppose them.
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