Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
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Published: 29 July 2026
Source: ZDNet AI
Category: News
Topics: Safety & alignment
Retrieved: 30 July 2026
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