There's probably an economic name for this, but it makes sense for non-leading companies or companies in an adjacent field to make public some secret sauce of a

There's probably an economic name for this, but it makes sense for non-leading companies or companies in an adjacent field to make public some secret sauce of a leading company's proprietary assets. e.g companies other than Google/Apple/MS to be funding or open-sourcing web browsers. AI models could be one of those things where we don't want one company to have most of the marbles.