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ZAYA1-8B creator Yupo Niu and researcher Daniel Kokotajlo debate if nine-month delayed open-weight releases are becoming obsolete

Niu notes frontier models like Claude lack open-weight equivalents.

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@1a3orn I am somewhat sympathetic. Isn't <9mo kinda weak sauce though? As things accelerate the gap between the frontier and 9mo behind the frontier will grow.

1a3orn@1a3orn

Haven't changed my mind about this.

Not getting this would be bad for concentration of power, for understanding LLMs, and even -- if you value this -- for the independence of Ant / OAI from FedGov.

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I am feeling pretty bummed about this in general, though, best future looks tough.

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