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Weights are meaningless if you can’t run the model from a computer under your desk.
by paxys 4mo ago
Weights are meaningless if you can’t run the model from a computer under your desk.
- wrs 4mo agoHow does that follow? Plenty of open source software runs in a commodity datacenter. This is about the API bottleneck, not the physical location of the GPU.
- AnimalMuppet 4mo agoFine, but I have a computer under my desk. I didn't have to wait for open hardware in order to get it.
- Windchaser 4mo agoI don't follow. If weights are open, can't competing providers pop up? Including, e.g., coalitions of anarchists who collectively share compute and collaborate on modifications to the weights. Even if it's too expensive to run the models on your own personal hardware, open weights may still make it possible to take power back from the big private corporations.