AI Is Turning Into A Private Members Club. Is Open Source The Future?

Morning All, Anthropic's Fable lasted three days, Mythos never went public at all, and now OpenAI's latest frontier model is invite-only. Last week OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 in three tiers and at the request of the U.S. government, none of the three is going straight to the public. The pattern is hard to miss. The most capable models are starting to arrive late, locked, and approved one customer at a time. Access to the greatest intelligence humanity has ever had is turning into something you...