Comment by stefan_
2 hours ago
"We have been having extensive discussions around open source strategy. [..] one thing we'd like to do soon is to create a language model with the approximate capability of GPT-3 that can run locally [..]. In general, we think this helps discourage others from releasing similarly-powerful models, and makes it harder for new efforts to get funded." - Sam Altman emails OpenAI board, 2.5 years after GPT-3
Chinese release open models to drive the state of the art, OpenAI and crooked Sam do it to keep you down.
> Chinese release open models to drive the state of the art
Are you sure it isn't just another form of Chinese industrial policy? China does not have frontier labs, but through distillation and their own work they can get pretty close. It's not enough to be competitive with Anthropic and OpenAI, but there is still money to be made by selling compute (software as a service), and in any case it's better than being left behind in the AI race.