Weights and Measures: OpenAI's Innovator’s Dilemma
TL;DR for operators OpenAI’s planned return to open-weight language models is not a charming rediscovery of its founding name. It is a market correction. The useful way to read the move is not “OpenAI becomes open source.” That is too neat, and therefore probably wrong. The more practical reading is this: OpenAI has a premium API and subscription business, but the AI market is increasingly learning to route around premium access when “good enough, controllable, and local” beats “best, metered, and remote.” ...