There’s a chasm running through the heart of the global tech industry. On the one hand there are companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google building proprietary (or “closed”) AI models—systems whose training data and source code are accessible only to their owners. On the other are open-weight models, which can be freely accessed and modified by developers. And while the latter has been championed by powerful tech executives like Mark Zuckerberg and Jens