How did we come to the place that the most transparent and open models are now coming out of China—freely sharing their research and source code—while all the American ones are fully locked down
The US is more law and finance led and the first thing seems to be to get an IP advantage and raise money. China I guess less so - they are famously lax on IP and everyone copies everything.
Short cheeky answer is that capitalists need to capture value and communists don’t. Less cheeky answer is that this is a good opportunity for China to make sure the world isn’t dominated by US-sourced AI models.
However in another way the US probably offers more free inference than China. What good is an open 600 billion parameter model to a poor person? A free account with ChatGPT might be more useful to them, though also more exploitative.
> How did we come to the place that the most transparent and open models are now coming out of China—freely sharing their research and source code—while all the American ones are fully locked down
culi|3 months ago
evrenesat|3 months ago
pennomi|3 months ago
The best innovation always happens before being tainted by investment.
p-e-w|3 months ago
tim333|3 months ago
victor9000|3 months ago
aqme28|3 months ago
SequoiaHope|3 months ago
However in another way the US probably offers more free inference than China. What good is an open 600 billion parameter model to a poor person? A free account with ChatGPT might be more useful to them, though also more exploitative.
kouteiheika|3 months ago
Greed and "safety" hysteria.
pylotlight|3 months ago