Open Formats, Open Interfaces, Open Thinking

What this chapter covers

Open formats, open interfaces, and open thinking are how you keep the freedom to change your mind. This chapter names the openness levels that matter in AI, shows where each one pays off, and where 'open' turns out to be a marketing word.

Key takeaways

• The four levels of openness — weights, data, formats, and interfaces
• Which ones actually protect optionality and which sound good on a slide
• How to evaluate an 'open' vendor claim in five minutes
• The role of open standards in agent-to-agent interoperability
• A pragmatic open-first policy your architecture team can adopt