I've been hearing and seeing a lot lately about some big-name companies pushing to ban open-source AI models. I'm curious what everyone here thinks about it. Personally, I'm in favor of open models because I believe they encourage innovation and accessibility, but I know not everyone feels the same way. What's your take on it?

The waitlist is up and seats are limited, so this is your nudge to go lock yours in. 👇 New here? Quick context. 👀 The Lyceum is Jake's live cohort program built on ICM, the methodology 35,000 people in this community are already using to get real results with AI. The short version: folders over agents. You learn the layer underneath the tools, the one that keeps working when the next model drops. Full breakdown is on the site. Here's what's inside: 🎯 Three cohorts, Technical, Business, and Creator. Same methodology, built around what you actually do. 🎥 Live sessions with Jake and a full team of instructors. ♾️ Lifetime recordings, written curriculum, and a private cohort Discord. 📜 An Eduba ICM certification you can put on your resume. And a guarantee no course makes: ✅ You leave with a working product, or the team finishes it with you. ⏳ Seats are limited and this community moves fast, so the math is not in your favor if you wait. 💡 Pricing and start dates aren't public yet. The waitlist sees them first, gives feedback on timing, and gets in before the program opens. Everything you want to know is on the page. If you already know this is for you, get on it. 🔥 👉 https://lyceum.eduba.io

The past will tell you the future.

I need to walk back this morning's announcement before anything else. @Ariel Ortiz is not a Premium or VIP member. The competition was Premium and VIP only, stated in bold in the original brief. That eligibility check should have happened before judging and it didn't. That's on me. The $325 and the Week 4 title go to @Ruby Sparks. The rest of the writeup stands. Repeating it here so the corrected results live in one place. ➖➖➖ 🏆 WINNER: @Ruby Sparks 🏆 🔗 Repo: https://github.com/sparkles-inc/agency-os 🌐 Live site: https://agency-os-tan-five.vercel.app/ Ruby was within an inch of taking it on the original call. The judging call between her build and Ariel's was the longest I've sat with on any comp. She earned this on the work alone. The Loom video she recorded for this submission is the cleanest voice work I've heard on any community submission. Full-on infomercial quality. Voice acting level. If you haven't watched it yet, go watch it. It's a master class in how to present a build. Beyond the voice: an animated handoff explainer on the companion site, a WRITEUP.md that compresses the entire submission into three paragraphs of clean argument, and a design philosophy made explicit. She refused typed schemas in favor of human-readable Handoff Cards with seven sections including a required Gaps field ("if Gaps is empty, you're not looking hard enough"). One continuous narrative thread runs through all 27 files of her repo. Ruby takes the $325. @Sonija Quinn will reach out to Ruby directly for payment details. Remember: in a world where AI is making it easier to build, it's the unique opinions and styles that become valuable. ➖➖➖ I thought last week was hard to judge. This was the hardest comp to judge so far. Not even close.