India, June 29 -- As enterprises increasingly embed AI into customer support, software development, financial operations, healthcare systems and decision-making workflows, access to AI models is becoming as important as access to essential infrastructure. But, here is the catch: when access to one of the world's most advanced AI models can be restricted with the stroke of a policy update, how much control do businesses really have?

Recent instances of restrictions on access to frontier AI models, like Fable 5, have made businesses, developers, researchers, and even governments vulnerable to the decisions of a handful of AI companies. This concern is deeper than we think. Imagine: a pricing revision, a policy update, an API deprecation, a...