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Google Joins Coalition Supporting Open AI Models

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25 July 2026 18h07

Love to read this! Google also joins the open AI coalition!

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DeepMind Highlights Open Contributions and Gemma’s 300 Million Downloads

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25 July 2026 17h31

A strong and secure open ecosystem is important for the world to benefit from AI. We’ve always supported and contributed heavily to open source and science from Jax to Transformers to AlphaFold to Gemma open models which have now been downloaded 300M+ times. And the standards

OpenAI Balances Proprietary Success with Open Releases Such as GPT-OSS

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25 July 2026 9h45

That certainly plays a role. And of course, OpenAI is aware that, despite its name, its success is based on closed source. To counteract this, they have consistently released open source code early on, such as GPT-OSS. But still, I see your point.

OpenAI Joins Coalition Supporting Open AI Models

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25 July 2026 9h31

OpenAI joined the coalition for open AI. I'm thrilled to see this, and I have real respect for openAI by signing. Now all that's missing is @AnthropicAI , but I have my doubts they'll sign on.

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OpenAI and Anthropic Differ in Their Open Model Strategies

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25 July 2026 7h46

I’d say there’s a near zero percent chance Anthropic signs it. OpenAI actually has open models. Anthropic has been consistent with their rallying against them.

Open-Weight AI Coalition and Opus 5 Release Reshape Model Competition

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25 July 2026 0h36

What a day! A massive coalition for open-source AI- – featuring Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella, alongside Meta and many others – championing open AI. Then came the Opus 5 release, which consistently outperforms Fable 5, costs half as much, and continues to show that the sky’s