Comment by nodesocket

It all comes down to financial incentives. Unlike the internet and software where the barrier to entry was essentially free. Open source frontier models are extremely capital intensive, infact virtually impossible without hordes of money and power. So where are the incentives for investors to back an open source model? There isn’t any. The exception is Meta because they have so much capital they can endure the loss, but they have fumbled Llama.

Another potential player could be Apple if they open sourced a frontier model, and make back some of the capex on hardware. Imagine AIserve hardware with continued expansion of MacMini’s and Mac Studios.