That's largely been the move by Big Tech when they open source or open weight their models I think. What they are actually releasing is just a watered-down version of the product that they are capitalizing. Even Deep Seek and other open source first teams keep their capitalized models private.
Maybe the same people who sold your data out the backdoor whilst championing your "privacy rights" on their platform by letting you block people have suddenly had a massive change of heart, but something tells me the play is just to further increase the gap between Big Tech and emerging players by watering down the market so much that only companies who already have the compute maximalist infrastructure are going to be able to train meaningful models.
Maybe I'm just a cynic though.
