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by concinds 57 days ago
> Never thought I'd say this but OpenAI is the 'open' option again.

Compared to Anthropic, they always have been. Anthropic has never released any open models. Never released Claude Code's source, willingly (unlike Codex). Never released their tokenizer.
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jwr 56 days ago
What's "open" about any of these companies?

I'm tired of words being misused. We have hoverboards that do not hover, self-driving cars that do not, actually, self-drive, starships that will never fly to the stars, and "open"… I can't even describe what it's used for, except everybody wants to call themselves "open".

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jgilias 56 days ago
And the vast majority of current and past countries with the word “democratic” in their name weren’t actually democratic.
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salad-tycoon 54 days ago
It’s open as in the sign in the door of your favorite local diner that says;

“Yes, we are OPEN ”

Open, as in not currently out of business.

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