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# Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

**Source:** Unknown  
**Published:** July 7, 2026  
**Original:** https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/why-the-rise-of-open-source-ai-isnt-hurting-anthropic-yet/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.

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