Eh, I don't really blame anyone for being cynical but open weight AI model releases seem like a pretty clear mutual benefit for Google. PR aside, they also can

Eh, I don't really blame anyone for being cynical but open weight AI model releases seem like a pretty clear mutual benefit for Google. PR aside, they also can push people to try these models on TPUs and the like. If anything, this seems like it's just one of those things where people win because of competition. OpenAI going closed may have felt like the most obvious betrayal ever, but OTOH anyone whose best interests are to eat their lunch have an incentive to push actually-open AI, and that's a lot of parties. Seems like anyone who is releasing open weight models today could close it up any day, but at least while competition is hot among wealthy companies, we're going to have a lot of nice things.