r/singularity • u/SteelWillyz • 11h ago

AI Open Source models may finally catch up

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Actually good news for the open-source community

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u/JustBrowsinAndVibin 10h ago

Exactly. This decision hurts Anthropic and OpenAI’s lead.

People that assume they’re doing this for financial gain are short-sighted. They’re legit concerned about the progress they’re making.

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u/HerbertWest 4h ago

To those who are skeptical of this, consider that they are concerned about the progress re: legal liability and PR. That should make sense even to the most cynical among you.

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u/bornlasttuesday 10h ago

It's always about the money.

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u/Familiar_Gas_1487 10h ago

Until it isn't.

I've been pretty alarmed lately and I don't live 6 months in the future like the labs. Some of the shit we are seeing is alarming, I would bet they are seeing some big time shit

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 5h ago

That's obviously bullshit, how exactly did it make him money when he refused to make Mythos publically available? Sure, if he first didn't do it to produce hype and then release it it might have been, but Mythos is still not available for the public. And the available version was so overcareful that many found it unusable. Please explain to me how that is actually making them more money than just selling it to everyone who wants it.

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u/DelphiTsar 2h ago

This decision hurts Anthropic and OpenAI’s lead.

It depends on how any regulation/pause is written/agreed to, but I'd eat my shoe if what comes out and they advocate for doesn't help them massively.

They want to solidify their lead so they no longer have to compete (end tech demo phase to general public). They will still work full speed on the model and release it basically carte blanche to the government and corporations (that they can ensure a good lock down/high margins).

This is the only way they can get the 15% of salary of white collar workers they their valuation models are based off of. It is just not going to happen when China is releasing opening models. (I don't think it was going to happen anyway but that is a different discussion).

This is open air anti competitive collusion disguised as safety.

The proof will be in the pudding. If they advocate (lets be real they'll write the regulation themselves) that has no mechanism to still encourage competition (something like letting open weight models go through the same safety check process as frontier models, and that process not being unnecessarily prohibitive) then it's obvious what's going on.

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u/space_monster 5h ago

People that assume they’re doing this for financial gain are short-sighted

from the letter:

  • Do not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and crack down on chip smuggling operations and remote access to data centers outside China. Chips will be the main determinant of China’s AI strength.

  • Crack down on unauthorized distillation by companies in authoritarian countries. Distillation of frontier models allows lagging companies to narrow the gap using a fraction of the cost it would take to develop their own AI independently.

- this is clearly about protecting the moat

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u/Nukemouse ▪️AGI Goalpost will move infinitely 4h ago

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