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Open Source AI is not a gift but a strategic move! The recent OECD - OCDE paper for the G7 presidency points the same way. The winning strategy increasingly looks like giving your work away. The numbers are hard to argue with. Open-weight models are only months behind the closed ones, for a fraction of the price. On Hugging Face they are two thirds of the licensed models, but four fifths of the downloads. The results are likely to strongly impact growth. A 10% rise in global open-source AI work tracks a 0.5% rise in long-run GDP across the 33 OECD countries studied. The gains come precisely because the work is shared. Each release builds on the last, instead of starting from scratch behind a wall. None of this is a free lunch. The growth figure is an upper bound, and openness at the model layer does little for real autonomy when the compute and chips underneath stay in a few hands. The OECD - OCDE has mapped the benefits across the stack. We at AI World map the ecosystem around it. Credit to the authors and everyone who shaped it for putting numbers on a debate that usually runs on assertion: Jeff Mollins, Luis Aranda, Jerry Sheehan, Audrey Plonk, Sara Rendtorff-Smith, Gallia Daor, Vincent Bataille, Manuel Betin, Celine Caira, Julia Carro, Andreia Furtado, Peter N. Gal, Daniel Haerle, Bénédicte Rispal, Jesse Dunietz, Frank Nagle. #AIpolicy #AIecosystem #EUTech #AIGovernance Sources: OECD - OCDE, Epoch AI,