Delip Rao Highlights Open Models Effect on Startups

Delip Rao, Researcher focused on NLP, deep learning, computer vision, and speech who founded Joostware, made a statement about open models. One under discussed impact according to him is that strong open models and competition from other model providers make startups more courageous to tell the world what they know. This happens without the previous concern of access cutoff to frontier intelligence. He notes having said this for a while and that it is worth repeating in the context of FOMO.