alt Hacker NewsHow could it possibly be open source if it requires proprietary models developed by a few companies to writs the code.
Seems like that would make open source entirely controlled by open ai, anthropic et al.
How could it possibly be open source if it requires proprietary models developed by a few companies to writs the code.
Seems like that would make open source entirely controlled by open ai, anthropic et al.
Open source and open weight models are already really good. I don’t think anyone really depends on the big AI companies anymore, if they go away, the open source models seem to be already sufficiently good to take the torch and will continue to improve thanks to research. They may require money to train , but the cost of that is already covered quite well and if these model became the mainstream way to use AI , more money from governments and research institutions would be poured into them.
That is actually a very plausible scenario!