This is where government funding can play a role.

Sometimes there are things where the public good is best served with public expenditure.

"Government funding" these days would mean that Trump pays Elon Musk (or more likely vice versa) to make Grok 4.20 the only legal LLM for use by Americans.

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dleslie 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Outside of the USA it would not look like a wealth transfer to an oligarch.

Not every country is in a crypto-libertarian race to hoard power and wealth.

	▲	CamperBob2 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not every country is in a crypto-libertarian race to hoard power and wealth. Meanwhile, in the EU, the model would be collectively financed, trained by a competent, neutral agency... and then completely lobotomized in the name of "the children," "safety," "IP rights," "correct speech," dozens of individual countries' legal and regulatory requirements, and any number of additional vocal, noncontributing NGOs. So no one would get rich off of the public model, but no one would get much of anything else out of it, either. As another reply suggests, there's a reason why things happen in the USA first. Even when they don't, the prime movers move here as soon as they can. Or at least they used to.