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Research Notes: Following the Open Source AI Trail

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A Z Mackay
May 10, 2025
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The Finding

Democratization theater. That’s what this is. The performance of distributing power while maintaining its concentration. The code is open, the compute costs millions, the data is proprietary, the infrastructure is centralized, and we call this progress toward accessibility.

Took six months of reading press releases, technical documentation, an…

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