Apache Foundation came along and made an open source web server. And now anyone could download Apache and make their own website. And plug it into the internet, and it would be available to everyone in the world for free. And anyone could download Firefox, go on their computer, and browse the internet for free. Open source then enabled all the entrepreneurs that built websites that made money to proliferate. They weren't gatekept. In the idea of AI, open weight models, open source models are free. So now you don't have to go pay
In the idea of AI, open weight models, open source models are free.