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cmiles8yesterday at 9:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

Wouldn’t be that different from open source software, which has been very successful in many circles.

You make money from value-add on top of the models not the models themselves.


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solenoid0937today at 3:57 AM

Open source software does not require trillions of dollars in R&D to produce the next iteration

redox99yesterday at 11:39 PM

Yeah but open source is often a few guys working on their free time, or a large company open sourcing libraries that they wouldn't be able to sell anyway, or donations from corporations that are at best in the order of a million dollars.

For frontier models you have players investing billions.