Conversation around generative AI tends to focus on whether its development is open or closed. It's more responsible to envision releases along a gradient.

This traditional system focuses on tightly integrated or closed systems with connections — including software interfaces — between parts of a platform, e.g., radar, fire control, computers, etc., that ...

Closed systems promise control but deliver lock-in. Open systems unleash innovation. With AI, the stakes are too high to get this wrong.