Interesting to see Chinese Open-Source AI ahead of the US in global usage figures.
Open models — which are free to download, modify and integrate by developers — make it easier for start-ups to create products and researchers to improve them. Widespread adoption will confer outsized influence over AI’s future.
China wants AI more than money. USA wants money more than AI. Long term plan vs short term plan.
It’s obvious to see why this is happening.
US AI is concentrated in a few super-large players with closed systems chasing AGI. Chinese AI is free to use by the world’s developers for today’s real world applications of AI. Chinese AI is even starting to become the default in the US among Silicon Valley start-ups.
Around the world, tens of thousands of businesses are going to want their own AI systems & they’ll build that on top of open-source foundations.
That’s why we now have AI enabled toys that declare Taiwan is part of China and Xi Jinping is beyond mockery.
Surely you have an example of one such toy on the market?
You want facts? on Lemmy? Gtfo
I mean, it makes perfect sense.
It works better, is cheaper to the point it’s probably free, and while they’re definitely going to store/sell your data, they’re actually less likely than an American tech company.
And that’s not even getting into how many people are in China and would view it as the default
Open weights is not open source…
No they weren’t, they were doing open weights and that is essentially a compiled binary…
No they weren’t and no they aren’t stopping it since they weren’t doing it
They were one of the companies trying to mix gaslighting people about what “AI” is with trying to gaslight people about what “open source” is
Is that what they’re stopping? Good if so
The only reason Facebook was relevant at all in AI is because their models were openly released.
All of their AI talent has already abandoned that ship and left to work at different companies, and the last AI model they released was total dogshit.
Shifting to closed source doesn’t make any sense for them, until you remember that only yes-men remain at Zuck’s company.
