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Six labs call their releases open, and each grants a different bundle: some cap commercial scale, some restrict use categories, one ships weights behind a paper alone, and only one also publishes the data, code, and logs needed to rebuild what shipped.
Meta did not set out to start an open-weight movement. A gated research release leaked within a week, and everything that followed — the commercial license, the benchmark claims, a rival's answer — was improvised in response to that accident.
Meta, Mistral, and a growing field of well-funded challengers are shipping open-weight models within a few months of closed frontier releases, changing the calculus for enterprises deciding whether to build or rent.