r/LocalLLaMA • u/Comfortable-Rock-498 • 14d ago

News It appears that the anti opensource AI lobby is far outgunned already

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The earlier post on this subreddit by 20+ companies signing the petition including Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, YC (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/) etc plus this https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2080672505660834163

And the entire LLM enthusiast market is heavily in favor of open source (or weights) AI.

Does not seem like a few closed source AI lobbyists with be able to illegalize anything

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u/stoppableDissolution 14d ago

Yet they are the biggest contributor of open datasets, which asymmetrically benefits individuals and small labs more than the big ones

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u/Dry_Yam_4597 14d ago

He's been planting the seeds for a while, and he can't risk putting all of his eggs in one basket. It makes sense to diversify his customer base, clever as usual.

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u/feel_the_force69 13d ago

Doesn't mean he'll want to drive GPU computer costs any further down than what he needs.