Open source is always important. You won't have a good developer pipeline without it. Other engineering disciplines should strive for something similar. Doesn't

Open source is always important. You won't have a good developer pipeline without it. Other engineering disciplines should strive for something similar. Doesn't mean there cannot be closed source software of course. At least for image synthesis, I believe the open models just plainly produce far better results by now since training is crowdsourced.