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what is the financial incentive to make it open-source?

• echelon 4y ago
  Everything accrues to OpenAI if it's not. More companies should be releasing models as open source and liberally licensed if they want to keep a seat at the table. Otherwise they'll get washed away.
  • balaji1 4y ago
    > Everything accrues to OpenAI if it's not. because OpenAI is not open-source? Then a closed source StableLM would accrue value to Stability?
    • echelon 4y ago
      Nobody gives a damn about closed source StableLM. It'll die off in the evolutionary fight as strictly inferior. (How many people are using Claude or Bard?) By being open source, StableLM will grow with the community. An ecosystem of mods, plugins, libraries, frontends, and more will be developed. Different companies will even compare notes and contribute upstream. Everyone participating wins.