Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.
Large U.S. companies, including AT&T, are shifting toward open-source AI models as a lower-cost alternative to proprietary systems from vendors like Anthropic and OpenAI. The trend points to growing corporate appetite for AI that does not depend on expensive commercial providers.
Why this matters: When companies run their own AI models instead of renting access from OpenAI or Anthropic, the data picture changes. Your information may stay inside a company's own infrastructure rather than passing through a third-party AI provider. That could be better for privacy. It also means less visibility into what model is being used, how it was trained, and who is accountable when it produces something wrong. Open-source is not inherently safe or unsafe. It just moves the responsibility somewhere less obvious.
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