[chrgy]

Open source will be behind always since it is harder to organize a large group of people and once it publishes it will be copied by big players, however if an organization like the original OpenAI gets formed that is truly non-for-profit and support the community, I believe it can beat big players. I think only Meta is the company that can support such an organization at the moment.

[hackernewds]

To counteract your point, OpenAI was a "truly non-for-profit"

[vasco]

That's why they wrote "the original".

[philipov]

I think their point is that the original failed, because it became what it is now. We need something without the same vulnerability.

[behnamoh]

I wonder why Meta keeps publishing their models for free. They don't seem to be doing much with their own research. What's the benefit for them then?

[chrgy]

I think their strategy is to weaken their opponent by building strong opensource models, they know they have lost the race to Microsoft and trying to go open source so people would not use other models.

[behnamoh]

Good point! I would also attribute it to disconnected company teams working on their own thing without integrating it into other products.

[ShamelessC]

Text to image paints a far less clear image (no pun intended) of the failure of open source efforts.

[throwawayadvsec]

text to image requires a lot less compute for training and has far less business applications

also...porn will make people achieve anything they set their mind to

[ShamelessC]

This is true.