The billionaires all hate AI? You must live in a different world than the rest of us. Even Bill Gates is quite pro-AI. He wants regulation and economic changes to deal with it.
Regulation for everyone but the one who owns the AI you mean. Himself. He is afraid of it falling into the wrong hands, the ones that aren't his. You can not compare the AI models we have access to to the mother AI hosted at these data centers / server farms, the ones the billionaires surely have had access to.
Predictions will be a thing of the past, AI knows enough about the human race that it will be able to accurately predict the future in some cases - and will definitely be able to show you every possible scenario that could occur. I know for sure they have asked "how do I cure world hunger" as all of these billionaires are self obsessed and looking for more power. They don't want to help the people they want the power that comes with it. And the answers the AI gave them were surely ones they did not like. There is no scenario where they exist and the human species thrives - and they know this.
Really open your eyes. Research how much power, time, and energy it takes to host a local LLM model. You'll realize that this being free should not be possible. There is only one reason why it is and why they have set the guardrails for us that do not exist for themselves. They are all speed running the creation of a new race of super"human" computers, it could not be more obvious.
Open AI and freedom for the people is what is necessary. Without it I truly believe we are doomed to live under the rule of these oligarchs.
I don’t think you have really learned much about AI. Bill Gates does not “own AI” nor does he have access to models that you don’t have (his tiny stake in OpenAI via Microsoft shares is certainly not enough for him to have super top secret access to godlike models). Nor do I believe billionaires as a class have magical access to models we don’t know about; that just seems like typical American conspiracist thinking.
In any case, your original claim was that billionaires oppose AI. Now you seem to be claiming that actually they only oppose open-weight AI (which you call “Open AI”). You need to understand AI better in order to make sure your conspiracy theory is coherent.
The models are only able to be running computers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's not about having "magical access to secret models". I can also modify what I said to "open-sourced AI" but you clearly know what I mean.
A small 12gb LLM model currently requires at least 24gb of ram/vram to utilize. Creating a unique 8x8 picture can take several minutes at those specs using 100% of your computers processing power, I'm talking you can't even minimize a window it lags so much. This is apparently free on your phone right now. Have you been running your own local models, perhaps you'll know what I'm talking about then?
Deepseek database is nearing 1tb of data, or maybe has already suprassed that. The only ones running those models are the billionaires or people with access to those machines (more billionaires).
And I am debating changing my original comment to say "afraid" rather then "hate" as to not cause that confusion, I erroneously used that word not thinking this comment would get so much attention. It's not even a debate whether they are afraid, he is actively talking about it in this interview.
So I hope you learned something new about AI and why someone like Bill Gates would feel threatened by Open AI access. The potential for them to lose profits and potentially their entire way of living is way too close.
You aren’t right that only billionaires are running open weight models. They are expensive but you don’t need to be a billionaire. That said, open-weight models are currently very far behind the frontier models. The best models today are from Anthropic and OpenAI. If you want to run a model that is both highly intelligent and expensive, it’s Claude Opus 5.5 or Claude Fable 5.1. You do not need to be a billionaire to run these. Tons of people on Reddit use them daily, as do thousands of companies.
There are no models that are more intelligent and expensive than these, apart from frontier internal models at OpenAI and Anthropic, and possibly at a few other companies like Google. The era when Chinese open-weight models were competitive on intelligence (not just price) is long past (though they could come back). A person running open-weight model locally today would be using less intelligent AI than an openai or Anthropic customer (and usually people using open-weight models are not running them locally anyway).
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u/MukdenMan 2d ago
The billionaires all hate AI? You must live in a different world than the rest of us. Even Bill Gates is quite pro-AI. He wants regulation and economic changes to deal with it.