Bernie’s bad bet on OpenAI - by Kobe Yank-Jacobs
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Nationalizing AI labs won’t support the welfare state
Right now, the financial future of American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic is built upon their ability to charge a premium for their services. Elected officials like Sen. Bernie Sanders are also counting on the dominance of these Big Tech companies to fund massive expansions of the welfare state. Open models could destroy both OpenAI’s current business model and the case for nationalizing AI labs. Last week, one Chinese company struck a blow to both of those dreams: Moonshot released an open model that is near the frontier of AI capability: Kimi K3.1 In contrast to proprietary models like…
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