Artificial Intelligence
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Has anyone tried running one of these open weight models yet?
https://stratechery.com/2026/who…
As this article talks about there are a lot of misconceptions about what open weight/open source means and it gets mapped onto the economic conflict with China. American media often frames it like China is copying the technology and giving it away for free.
But I think what it really means is that AI will become more accessible and less controlled/censored in the future. Right now it's mostly businesses and people working in AI who are using these models but as hardware improves it seems likely that more and more people will be running them locally. Imagine buying a laptop and then downloading open weight model as part of the setup process, configuring it to whatever you want and running it locally without paying a subscription.