After a two years burnout-hiatus, I finally found motivation to work on something new. Using web tech this time, not interested in dealing with walled gardens anymore.
OPEN SOURCE
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OpenAI’s strategy: cheaper and easier custom AI development amid competition
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Why the generosity? Competition is heating up, with rivals like Google, Anthropic, and open-source models pushing prices down. OpenAI’s response? Make it easier and cheaper for devs to create custom AI.
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Major Update Available for GenAI-Arena Voting Platform
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huge update, vote here: https://
huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-L
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Tech Philanthropy as Market Lock-In Strategy Against Open Source
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It's not like they are giving people technology that nobody else has! Versions of this exist already, including open-source. Their motive is to look good while furthering their own lock-in over the open alternatives — at the cost of the "targets" of their philanthropy.
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Proprietary Licenses vs Open Source: AI’s Perverse Incentives
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Think about *how* they are (supposedly) helping. They are providing licenses as a lock-in to their own proprietary platform, instead of helping people permanently by promoting or releasing things as open-source. It's a perverse incentive at best, given the alternative.
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Tech Giants Should Fund Open-Source AI Alternatives Permanently
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You have to look at their actions in context: there are open-source alternatives which they could fund and *permanently* help those who they claim to support — rather than giving some the privilege of temporary cloud compute.
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Licensing Models: Proprietary vs Open Source AI Code
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Please use your brain for a second longer! They are giving *licenses* that could end at any time, leaving those people in worse position than before. If the profit-seeking companies made a lite version of their code available forever on open-devices, it'd be fine…
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Open-Source Accessibility Technology Over Profit-Driven Corporate Solutions
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This kind of thing should be open-source only. It's always dangerous to have profit-seeking companies use disabled people for PR, e.g. to fix the reputation problem caused by the rest of their business.
— Alex J. Champandard 🌱 (@alexjc) 21 août 2024
(It's huge Red Flag for me, same as NeuralLink's DARPA-derived technology.) https://t.co/8ixe1JVa7dThis kind of thing should be open-source only. It's always dangerous to have profit-seeking companies use disabled people for PR, e.g. to fix the reputation problem caused by the rest of their business. (It's huge Red Flag for me, same as NeuralLink's DARPA-derived technology.)
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Complete Open Source Robot Assembly and Training Tutorial Released
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🤖Beep Boop
— Hugging Face (@huggingface) 21 août 2024
We just released an end-to-end tutorial, from assembling your robot to training it. All open! https://t.co/bTKJ5QLmIHBeep Boop We just released an end-to-end tutorial, from assembling your robot to training it. All open!
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ShapeSplat: Large-scale Gaussian Splats Dataset and Self-Supervised Pretraining
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ShapeSplat A Large-scale Dataset of Gaussian Splats and Their Self-Supervised Pretraining' discuss: https://
huggingface.co/papers/2408.10
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… 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become the de facto method of 3D representation in many vision tasks. This calls for the 3D understanding directly in