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Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN

We've been hearing about okay anthropic and open AAI are going to Washington DC sharing the new model capabilities. Maybe the government's taking a look at the model card. Maybe there's potential for evals that the government would run and have an opinion on before it goes out. This is basically saying, "Hey, all of that is nonsense and not gonna matter because yeah, we're just going to drop the weights and there's not going to be an approval process of any kind."

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Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN

We're now one month later and we have an open source model that doesn't by definition have to go through any discussion or any discussion in DC. Whereas we've been hearing about okay anthropic and open AI are going to Washington DC sharing the new model capabilities. This is basically saying, "Hey, all of that is nonsense and not gonna matter because yeah, we're just going to drop the weights and there's not going to be an approval process of any kind."

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routing workloads across specialized models could fundamentally reshape where value is created in AI

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U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN

One probable outcome of an openweight model dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes rather than a market product. AI is a public good, which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of digital public infrastructure.

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Kimi K3 Reactions, The Odyssey Hits $264M in Debut, Netflix Embraces AI | Diet TBPN

The more skeptical folks on the timeline are pointing to uh you know ideas such as uh maybe the compute was smuggled in to China against chip controls. Maybe the data was excfiltrated from frontier lab APIs routed through wrapper companies. Maybe this is a distillation attack. Um the open-source strategy is a deliberate attempt to destroy American companies. It's geopolitical warfare. It's the AI cold war.

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Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN

Open weight models are ideal for users who want unfettered access to systems they control. Uh, but they're also ideal for hackers who want to run them in the shadows.