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Open Weights
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Analysis · The Industry
Can One Fat Cat Put Europe Back in the AI Race?
France's Mistral has built a one-trillion-parameter model, named it after a fat internet cat, and promised to give it away. The numbers are striking. The small print is doing a lot of work.
Analysis · Power & Policy
The Model Was Never the Moat
Two documents landed this week: one hands a frontier model to anyone, the other ends the Pentagon's use of the lab that would not drop its safety checks. Together they show where the power in AI sits.
Analysis · Power & Policy
Open, Then Closed: What Kimi K4 Reveals About Who Owns AI
China won the world with free, open-weight AI models. Now, as Moonshot builds Kimi K4, Beijing is weighing rules to stop the world downloading them. Here is the turn, the evidence, and what it means if you rent your AI.
Analysis · Power & Policy
Suspicious Signals: What Anthropic's Claude Bans Actually Reveal
Anthropic suspended paying Claude users in Hong Kong and Russia this week under an undefined rule called suspicious signals. Its own numbers say almost no bans are reversed. This is the deeper story: who controls access, who is accountable, and what recourse is left when a classifier decides.
Analysis · Power & Policy
Banned for Building: What PewDiePie's OpenAI Suspensions Actually Reveal
PewDiePie says OpenAI banned him twice for distilling a model to build his own. The story is not YouTube drama. It is a question about who is allowed to train, who owns the pipeline, and what theft means when the same move runs in both directions.
