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[–] 1 point 4 months ago

AI (frontier LLMs) are capital intensive. In that way, it's unlike many other kinds of software. I don't think near-frontier open source models will be a thing for very long. Even if you have the papers that describe everything, it will take many millions of dollars just in compute to train frontier models, and then a small army of people doing reinforcement tuning. The people who invest that capital will want to maximize returns and will be hostile to the idea of open source.

Another capital intensive industry that arguably does a lot of good, and probably has a lot of idealist researchers is pharma. It's also one of the most predatory industries.

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