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Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI (time.com)
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[–] 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Open models are one of the few forces keeping AI from becoming an oligopoly: Without them, a handful of companies would control the technology, prices, and the rules of what users are allowed to do. Competition from open models is already pushing the entire industry to innovate faster and charge less. 💪😎✌️

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If the open source ones are good enough why would anyone pay enough for AIMegacorp to make a profit?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Most companies have not yet been using AI efficiently, and often do so simply out of FOMO. What’s more, the fact that open-weight models have caught up with or even overtaken closed AIs is a recent development over the last six months.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    From my personal experience, most companies don't look at the benchmarks and simply buy "AI" from a company based on their perception of that company.

    All the Chinese models are scary and "dangerous", Grok too (but for slightly more legitimate reasons), Meta that's Facebook and everyone knows they're bad at privacy (even your boss), so they end up choosing Microsoft's AI, OpenAI, or Anthropic.

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