I agree. But to empower those millions of developers, you need an open platform on which to build.
Right now, only a few entities can build high-performance open LLMs, because they are so expensive to train.
Those entities are Meta and a few very well-funded startups.
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Open LLMs Require Accessible Platforms Beyond Major Tech Giants
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Open Source AI Emerges as Counterweight to Proprietary Systems
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The counterweight to closed/proprietary AI is open/free AI.
All of Academia, many governments, almost all the startups, and a few larger companies are embracing the open source approach to AI, the biggest ones being Meta and IBM. -
Meta Emerges as Open Source AI Counterweight
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And the open source counterweight is actually
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Meta Embodied AI Group: LLMs Not Involved in Stair Climbing
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So has the Embodied AI group at Meta.
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AI’s Rise: Preparedness and Awareness in 2026
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I appreciate your concerns and I thank you for your kind words, but I'm fine.
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Open Source AI Regulation Debate Intensifies
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But the raging debate at the moment is almost entirely about the potential regulation of open source AI platforms. No one is seriously claiming that AI-based products should not be regulated.
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Open Source Airliner Firmware Requires Certification Compliance
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Learning from Video: The Harder AI Challenge Ahead
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And what do you think we are working on?
"Waiting until AI can watch video" won't move us forward.
We have to figure out how to get this to work.
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Open Source AI Software Should Not Be Regulated Like Products
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Regulating AI *products* makes sense, depending on the application domain. But regulating *open source AI software* makes zero sense.
There are no other domains where open source software is regulated. There is no reason to treat open source AI software differently from open