Anthropic argues open-source AI complements frontier labs. US restrictions on its models drove $2.87B into decentralized AI tokens like Bittensor and

Trump administration export controls on Anthropic and OpenAI models drive investors toward decentralized AI tokens, with Bittensor TAO surging 30%.

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.