A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
Companies that bet on the right one could win big
There are two sides to the software industry. One faces outwards, with whizzy products and services that bring in billions of dollars of revenue for trillion-dollar companies. The other faces inwards, creating, updating and sharing—often for free—the basic software infrastructure and tools that makes the digital world tick.
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