If you assume the models will go closed source as soon as they get AGI-ish, then it makes more sense (you attract more talent, prestige, and free research going open source in the meantime).
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Why Big Tech Invests Billions in Open Source LLMs
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I've done academic research on open source & I am confused about the case for firms spending billions making open LLMs. In most open source, companies gain ecosystem benefits: people build on their platform, they sell ancillary services, etc. Doesn't work for LLMs at that cost.
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Suna: Open-Source AI Agent for Autonomous Workflows
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I found a 100% open-source generalist AI agent! Suna is a fully open-source agent that takes natural-language instructions and turns them into real, autonomous actions It combines web scraping, file editing, and API calling to run full multi-step workflows.
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Hugging Face Launches Deepsite v2 with DeepSeek R1 Model
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Hugging Face released Deepsite v2, the revamped version of its open-source vibe coding platform, with:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 19 juin 2025
—Reasoning-capable DeepSeek R1 model
—Multiple inference options
—Incredible UI design outputs
—Targeted Edits on any site elementpic.twitter.com/ym7lMBc01kHugging Face released Deepsite v2, the revamped version of its open-source vibe coding platform, with: —Reasoning-capable DeepSeek R1 model
—Multiple inference options
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GitHub Pull Request #38621 to Hugging Face Transformers Repository
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Slack inadequate for community building CNCF praise
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I strongly believe Slack is not a good place for communities. Kudos to CNCF 🙂
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OpenAI’s AI Technology Monopoly Raises Competitive Concerns
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And now here we are, still concerned that all of the AI technology will be locked up inside of one company (OpenAI).
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H100 Prices Expected to Fall to $1-1.50 Mark
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I expect H100 prices will keep falling, probably to around the ~$1.50 mark or maybe even ~$1 at some point. This would be a major boost for open source models and smaller use cases, something that tends to be squeezed out when GPUs are rare and expensive. Data from Bloomberg's
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AMD MLPerf strategy: confidentiality versus open source collaboration
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If you get AMD on MLPerf, wouldn't they want as many people as possible to know about it? And wouldn't they love getting lots of help to get there from open source contributors? What is confidentiality getting them?!?
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Community-Funded AI Lab Monetizes Operations Without Investors
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unlike the other ai labs we have no investors – we are entirely community supported. this means we need to charge money to run our servers!