The AI a government cannot switch off

Last week a major AI model got pulled offline by a government order, just days after it launched. If that made you wonder what happens to your work when the company behind your tools can flip a switch, you are asking the right question.

Here is the other side of that story. There is a whole class of AI called open weight models. The company releases the actual model file to the public, so anyone can download it and run it on their own computer. Once it is out there, no single company or government can quietly take it back.

This week one of those open models, called Kimi, scored higher than one of the big paid flagship models on a test of doing real work with other tools. So this is not a case of free but worse. On that test, the free downloadable one won.

What this means for you: the tools you rely on do not all have to live on someone else's server. Keeping one option that runs on your own machine is starting to look less like a hobby and more like common sense.

Would you ever want a private AI that runs entirely on your own computer, or do you prefer the convenience of the big online ones? Comment below.

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