This definitely feels like a move made out of desperation, but I admit I'm curious to see what they release.
It's fascinating that some of the best-funded startups of the 2020s are all rushing to commoditize their core technology as quickly as possible. They all seem to have the same business model as the Change Bank from SNL
The cynical late-stage-capitalism argument for releasing an open source model is for PR/goodwill and hoping for the chance the model becomes a foundation model in the OSS community. But OpenAI definitely isn't operating around good PR and the chance of releasing a foundation model is unlikely given the competition.
Orgs and individuals are chasing sentiment to cash out while valuations are inflated (there has been some expectation deflation, see Microsoft terming datacenter leases and the CoreWeave IPO fizzle), but open models are still welcome (democratization).
Desperation because they face an existential risk from trillion dollar companies (and others) creating open models that are starting to catch up to their flagship.
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This definitely feels like a move made out of desperation, but I admit I'm curious to see what they release.
It's fascinating that some of the best-funded startups of the 2020s are all rushing to commoditize their core technology as quickly as possible. They all seem to have the same business model as the Change Bank from SNL
Desperation? How so?
The cynical late-stage-capitalism argument for releasing an open source model is for PR/goodwill and hoping for the chance the model becomes a foundation model in the OSS community. But OpenAI definitely isn't operating around good PR and the chance of releasing a foundation model is unlikely given the competition.
Orgs and individuals are chasing sentiment to cash out while valuations are inflated (there has been some expectation deflation, see Microsoft terming datacenter leases and the CoreWeave IPO fizzle), but open models are still welcome (democratization).
Desperation because they face an existential risk from trillion dollar companies (and others) creating open models that are starting to catch up to their flagship.