Given that it's most public use in open source so far is to whitewash GPL code into MIT code, no, I'm sorry, I don't think "open source AI" is particularly important.

It’s the GPUs, not the weights that are the key.

As long as these models require a lot of computing power, the best models open source or not will be served by corporations who can afford the infra.

Open source AI will win. It's the same reason why out of all the languages on the web we could have used, Javascript won.

The only way for open source to win is for closed source to provide the compute resources.

That’s really the only thing stopping people from training or running these models at home:

I hope so. But how? Who gonna fund these projects and how to coordinate with every sides. This is complex. I only believe that the open source AI won’t lack users.

If you've been writing off Deepseek V4 Pro, now is your time to go set up moonbridge and give it a shake. It's exceptionally good.

Got a bit more than 1B tokens for $10, it's exceptionally fast, it was able to fix/implement things that 5.5 xhigh struggled with, without trying to act like my best friend or do that coy "undersell the ideal end result so that it can later overshoot it and claim a great success" bullshit.

E: miss me with the "but China" BS, everything I've experienced while using this model has convinced me they are earnestly more concerned with doing the right thing than Anthropic could ever pretend to be. And if you want to ask it questions about Mao, you can go download the weights and spend mid-five-figures to fine tune that out.

I vote that you become the next Richard Stallman

what if grok went open source and was on par with open chinese models? the business play may not be the models themselves but owning the data centers and running infrastructure for all models from all companies? a lot of people could then be rooting for xai and elon could ironically save face by actually implementing an open model

Winning is a tall order. I'm just hoping it'll get good enough while allowing us to run it locally with no idiotic "safety" controls or censorship of any sort. Looks like the best open weight models are at Sonnet level, if they get to Opus 4.6 level it's gonna be perfect.