Building rockets, turbojets, neural nets, nuclear power plants, aircrafts, microprocessors,… all of these things require hands-on experience and "black art" knowledge that you can't find written down anywhere.
@ylecun
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Facebook’s Open Source DNA: From React to PyTorch Impact
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It was entirely expected.
Open source was in the DNA of Facebook from the start (e g. React, Open Compute…)
And the creation of FAIR 10 years ago extended that philosophy to open research in AI. I mean, there would be no ChatGPT without PyTorch. -
Open LLMs Require Accessible Platforms Beyond Major Tech Giants
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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.
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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 !!! -
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.
Perhaps AI snuck up on you, but it certainly didn't sneak up on me. -
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.