Is the future of AI selling hardware for Open Source/Models?

I’m not super knowledgeable of the entire AI industry, but as we see this industry grow and the Cold War that is happening between the US and China on AI development, I can’t help but notice what US companies are backing open source vs those not in support. Those encouraging Open Source/Weight models are those that can develop and sell hardware: Meta, Google, Nvidia, while companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are against open source because then why would they stay in business? Would, and will the move for AI be to create affordable hardware for the average consume to run their own local models? Figuring out a way to mass produce Mini CPUs, then develop open source models to run on that hardware? submitted by /u/New-Pressure-6932 [link] [comments]

Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-08-12