Chess engines are another great example. AlphaZero was a strong neural network engine but since the code was never published, the open source Leela has since stolen the spotlight.

Free software. This forum must be renamed.

I think this is true because I remember the presentation of google getting the AI to make a reservation. If that was open source everyone would be making reservations like that since then. But that’s not the case, so it’s as if it didn’t happen.