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# Open Model Economy Reaches Measurable Scale
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/open-model-economy-reaches-measurable-scale/
- Published: 2026-11-05T17:17:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-05T17:17:18.000Z
- Description: Open-source AI models have grown from research artifacts to a legitimate economic category with measurable adoption and commercial activity, suggesting that the walled-garden dynamics of frontier AI are not inevitable.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-ai, open source models, model economy, llm ecosystem

Source: [Interconnects AI](https://www.interconnects.ai/p/how-well-can-we-measure-open-model?ref=adjacent.media)

Open-source AI models have grown from research artifacts to a legitimate economic category with measurable adoption and commercial activity, suggesting that the walled-garden dynamics of frontier AI are not inevitable. The shift matters because it determines whether AI capability becomes a commodity controlled by a handful of companies or a distributed asset class—with direct implications for pricing, regulation, and who can build competitive products.