What..? We have open weights AI already, and even if we didn't, I don't see how Open Source hardware is a pre-requisite

Weights are meaningless if you can’t run the model from a computer under your desk.

	▲	wrs an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		How does that follow? Plenty of open source software runs in a commodity datacenter. This is about the API bottleneck, not the physical location of the GPU.
	▲	Windchaser an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I don't follow. If weights are open, can't competing providers pop up? Including, e.g., coalitions of anarchists who collectively share compute and collaborate on modifications to the weights. Even if it's too expensive to run the models on your own personal hardware, open weights may still make it possible to take power back from the big private corporations.
	▲	AnimalMuppet an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Fine, but I have a computer under my desk. I didn't have to wait for open hardware in order to get it.