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@natolambert if open-weight is the future, there’s got to be either another business that subsidizes the cost of development or a government. Yann Lecun has publicly argued that governments inevitably will all have their own models as DPI, and that this will be the dominant form of ai
@natolambert Not “forced” communism, but more like “communism as a convergent outcome.”
Companies will be making the best models, depends if you count nationalized labs. The cost of training models is not insurmountable for many companies. Some use open as a strategy. I don’t see these equilibriums changing. Govts more likely to nationalize closed models if they re leading. Smaller countries will be open sure but models will be second tier so not forced communism?