Go China, screw America*

*within the scope of open models only

I like my Apache 2.0 licensed Gemma, and NVIDIA’s Nemotrons are decent bases for finetuning or continued pretraining, esp thanks to good documentation and tooling.

Oh, and Mira’s thinking machines lab dropped Inkling, a ~1T open weight model too.

This isn’t US vs China. This is open vs closed.

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jimbob45 a day ago | parent | next [-]

This isn’t open though. Promises to be open later aren’t worth anything, given what we’ve seen and heard from AI execs making promises in this industry.

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ycui7 20 hours ago | parent [-]

it takes extra effort to open source a model even if you had it running internally. even traditional software takes extra effort to get released as open source.

	▲	jimbob45 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m sympathetic but AI claims are to be disbelieved until proven anymore. That’s a well poisoned thoroughly by not just American companies.

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khurs a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It's Sunday morning so I'm allowed to be facetious!