Open vs Closed Models

Access, licensing, deployability and self-hosting — tracked as multidimensional openness metadata, not a single binary. "Open source" is reserved for releases that meet an explicit open-source definition; downloadable weights alone are labelled open-weight, not open-source.

All categories Closed (API only)Open-weight (permissive)Open-weight (restricted)Source-available UnknownLast 5mo All timeShow10 25 50 All

Labelled releases

of 10 tracked · 10 unknown (6 declined · 4 no evidence returned) · low sample

Open-weight share

low sample

Self-hostable

of 0 labelled releases

Orgs shipping

10 releases in view

Of the 10 unclassified, 6 were assessed and the source stated no licensing terms to classify on; 4 were asked and the model returned no openness evidence at all.

Release timeline by access category — last 5 months

one stacked column per month · one segment per access category

Closed (API only)Open-weight (permissive)Open-weight (restricted)Source-availableUnknown

View as table

Month	Closed (API only)	Open-weight (permissive)	Open-weight (restricted)

Capability comparison

reported benchmarks by release · vendor-supplied vs independent evaluation kept visually separate

Vendor-reported benchmarks

Falcon-ASR

Average WER across six Arabic test sets 20.92%Internal Emirati evaluation WER 22.73%Internal Emirati evaluation CER 10.19%Mean WER across seven public English test sets 5.74%

Claude Haiku 5.5 5.5

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (max effort) 43CursorBench Not specifiedFrontierCode 1.1 58.4%

d1-3B

Decision Index v0.3 mean score across seven public datasets 82.9

Self-hosting & deployability

raw values as extracted — free text, never inferred from branding

Release	Access	Self-hosting	On-premise	Edge	API
GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast 6.1	Unknown — no evidence returned	unknown	unknown	unknown	Rolling out in the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work
Falcon-ASR

Leading orgs

all access categories · current filter

OpenAIOpenAI

Liquid AILiquid AI

Technology Innovation Institute (TII)Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

AnthropicAnthropic

NVIDIANVIDIA

Recent licence & weights activity

most recently released labelled models — a snapshot, not a change diff (no licence-history field exists yet)

No labelled releases in the current filter yet.

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