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Open-source AI moved from a side project to a major thread in 2023-2024. Llama released model weights, Mistral built a French AI company on open releases, and Hugging Face became the central hub for hosting and discovering models — over 1.5 million models indexed there as of 2026. Stability AI ships open image and audio models. Open releases compete with closed APIs on cost, customizability, and on-premise deployment. The trade-offs are real: open models lag the frontier by 6 to 12 months on average, and open weights is not the same as open source (training data is rarely included). Stories cover model releases from Mistral, Meta, Stability, Hugging Face, and Chinese open labs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi), plus the licensing debates that follow each major release.

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