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Free Binaries, Again
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Free Binaries, Again

The words open source were coined in a room in Palo Alto in February 1998, specifically to stop people arguing about price. Twenty-eight years later we are calling model weights open, and the entire argument is about price. Here is what that word used to buy, and what a download actually gets you.
27 Jul 2026 7 min read
Eaten From the Bottom
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Eaten From the Bottom

A Beijing lab just shipped the #1 open model on Earth at a sixth the cost of the frontier. The closed labs own the top of the index and are right that they own it. In 1969 the steel giants owned the top too, and ceded rebar to the upstarts. By 2001 Bethlehem was bankrupt.
29 Jun 2026 4 min read
OpenClaw and the Architecture Nobody Noticed
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OpenClaw and the Architecture Nobody Noticed

Everyone is writing about the OpenClaw acqui-hire as an agents story. It is an agents story. But the reason OpenClaw worked has almost nothing to do with agents and almost everything to do with where the compute happened.
19 Feb 2026 6 min read
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