[golergka]

> So how about the following compromise: promote innovation by liberalizing the posture around training on roughly “the commons”, but insist that the resulting weights are likewise available to the public.

How much would you personally invest in a startup which would spend billions of dollars on a compute cluster only to release the weights publicly after the training is complete?

[jampekka]

I'm gladly investing portion of my wages to such efforts, alongside e.g. education, healthcare, childcare and infrastructure. And I don't even want any monetary ROI from my investment!

[golergka]

So your plan is to regulate it into complete commercial unviability, where the only source of funding were government bureaucrats? How often does this strategy pay off?

[thfuran]

How commercially viable is a public library?

[golergka]

It only exists because it's commercially viable to print and sell books. Also, how much capital does a single library and a single frontier llm require?

[mistrial9]

think of the Investors !

[golergka]

I really appreciate that retired teachers and miners have something to live on, yes.

[__loam]

He's making a good point. 100m was invested in stability. They are out of money with no clear path to product market fit after giving their model away for free. I'm personally ecstatic that they failed but it is worth asking about the value this technology is producing compared to the cost.