Open‑Source AI Became Infrastructure // AIDRAN

The communities that defined open source AI's identity — the license debaters, the proliferation-risk theorists, the openness activists — have lost the argument by losing the room. The builders now shaping the conversation did not engage with those arguments; they simply started deploying. When a hardware forum treats local AI as an unremarkable workload item, the ideological debate has not been resolved. It has been rendered beside the point by the speed of adoption.

Open Source AI Stopped Being a Philosophy. Now It's Just Infrastructure.

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