Founder Claims Open Weight Models Spur Innovation, Not Distillation Risks
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The Chinese do not need to distill anymore. They've climbed up the proverbially tech tree that to climb higher, they need to do actual frontier work. Distillation is marginal. Any lobbying or legislation that calls for banning open weight models in the name of "distillation" is total BS. This is a fight against future American innovation. The labs know that open weight models completely commoditize their revenue generator. They know that we will optimize it to 1/100th the costs. They know that we will stop concentrating our workloads on them. If we start using open models, they lose the understanding of workloads that they can build products around to *replace* your products as they move up to the app layer. Remember: *they* trained on humanity's data and didn't pay a cent. If you own intelligence, you can tax humanity. Do not let them fool you.
They *distilled* humanity. The hypocrisy is unreal. The best gift is to give it away, at the lowest marginal costs, to let us prosper as a species. If intelligence casts a light cone, it is a moral imperative to extend it as diffusely as possible.