open weights
Policy & Regulation
Open Source AI: The Policy Battle That Will Define the Next Decade of Technology
ALGERIATECH Editorial
December 14, 2025
When Meta released Llama 3 in April 2024 with open weights — making the model's parameters freely downloadable by anyone — it ignited one of the most significant policy debates in AI history. When DeepSeek followed with R1 in January 2025, demonstrating that Chinese
