The New AI Divide
The AI industry is moving toward a hybrid strategy in which companies share enough of their models and tools to build adoption, developer loyalty, and ecosystem influence, while keeping their most advanced systems closed to protect competitive advantage, control risk, and capture more value. Instead of a simple open versus closed divide, AI is increasingly becoming a spectrum shaped by business strategy, safety concerns, and market competition.
The New AI Divide 0 Unaligned Newsletter Posts The New AI Divide The New AI Divide Open Enough to Spread, Closed Enough to Win Robert Scoble & Irena Cronin April 07, 2026 Thank you to our Sponsor : EezyCollab For a while, the AI industry liked a simple story about openness. Some companies positioned themselves as open and developer friendly, while others leaned into proprietary systems and tightly controlled access. That distinction is getting harder to sustain. The market is moving into a more complicated phase in which many companies want the benefits of openness without gi
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