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It will be interesting to see if this ends up reading as a preemptive play. If OpenAI hits a wall and the LLM/GPT trail runs dry, or if regulation somehow stif
by _heimdall 3y ago
It will be interesting to see if this ends up reading as a preemptive play.
If OpenAI hits a wall and the LLM/GPT trail runs dry, or if regulation somehow stifles the industry, it would be a very smart move to offer liquidity now while the fortunes are there for the taking.
- sigmoid10 3y agoI think it's less about LLMs suddenly hitting a theoretical ceiling or politics getting a grip on the industry. But there is a very real threat from actual open AI research. Free models have advanced remarkably and if you choose to, you can run something between GPT3.5 and GPT4 all by yourself right now. With the spread of cloud GPU providers, this could become cheaper than anything OpenAI offers very soon. I fully expect a GPT-4 (or better) level open weights model before this year is over. Right now OpenAI is desperately trying to differentiate itself from other chat model providers by offering tons of side features on the backend that have little to do with the LLM itself. That might lock in some of the bigger customers for a while, but this strategy isn't sustainable for long in the current climate.
- rvnx 3y agoAlso open weights models, even if not open-source, allow to get rid of censorship and alignment. Most US models are so heavily censored, that even Chinese (and supposedly censored) models like Qwen-VL feel like open-minded.