@_deepfates went in sermon mode this week and I love it: https://t.co/p7SQdV9YnB
The premise of the paper is that while OpenAI and Google continue to race to build the most powerful language models, their efforts are rapidly being eclipsed by the work happening in the open source community.
Simon Willison • Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
t doesn’t help that the two most impressive implementations of AI for real work - Claude’s artifacts and ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter - are often hidden and opaque
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
And, quite simply, any technology requiring hundreds of billions of dollars to prove itself is built upon bad architecture. There is no historical precedent for anything that OpenAI needs to happen. Nobody has ever raised the amount of money it will need, nor has a piece of technology required such an incredible financial and systemic force — such ... See more
Edward Zitron • How Does OpenAI Survive?
The challenge for the open movement is already clear: build an alternative to corporate, closed machine learning systems. And to protect the commons from exploitation by these systems.
How Wikipedia can shape the future of AI – Open Future
And in the end, OpenAI doesn’t matter . They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.
Simon Willison • Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
So, what exactly has OpenAI done differently? Expanding on Altman’s comments and adding a few others.
- Going to market with a consumer and an enterprise product. ChatGPT Enterprise just launched. There’s ChatGPT Plus for $20/month for consumers. Is ChatGPT just product-led growth for the enterprise product, or will OpenAI run two playbooks: one to b
Matt Rickard • The Contrarian Strategy of OpenAI
Huge “foundation models” are turbo-charging AI progress
economist.com