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 OpenAI/Anthropic, and build applications that build on top of its cognitive capabilities. In other words, AI is shaping up to be an oligopoly of sorts, with only a small set of serious large language model (LLM) providers. I don’t think this could be farther from the truth. I truly believe that open source will have more of an impact on the future of LLMs and image models than the broad public believes. There

Why Open Source AI Will Win You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry. Varun Shenoy Sep 15, 2023 35 15 3 Share 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 comp

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

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