Why Open Source AI Will Win - by Varun - Public Experiments

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Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected only by the tenuous strands of the Internet? Certainly not I. opening remarks in The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond. There’s a popular floating theory on the Internet that a combination of the existing foundation model companies will be the end game for AI. In the near future, every company will rent a “brain” from a model provider, such as…

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