Open-Source AI vs. Closed Platforms: Who's Actually Winning the 2025 Arms Race?
Meta's Llama models, Mistral's scrappy European upstarts, and a growing ecosystem of community fine-tunes are putting serious pressure on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's walled gardens. We dug into the benchmarks, the licensing drama, and the real deployment math to figure out which camp is actually ahead — and where each approach falls flat.