Meta, Google, NVIDIA go open source; OpenAI stays closed — strategies diverge
The gap between companies that sell hardware and companies that profit from APIs over open-source strategy has become a talking point in the community
Meta's AI organization behind Llama. In August 2026, it acknowledged the failure of Llama 4 and open-sourced its successor, "Muse." Muse Glimmer 30B is an open model with about 30 billion parameters that Meta AI released for local agent use. According to reports from August 2026, Muse Glimmer 30B was praised for successfully completing a repository code review in local-run tests. That same month, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word AI manifesto, which was said to have only deepened public distrust instead of easing it.
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The gap between companies that sell hardware and companies that profit from APIs over open-source strategy has become a talking point in the community
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