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Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-weight AI (www.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1284443/meta-nvidia-microsoft-a16z-and-others-sign-a-letter-defending-open-weight-ai-jensen-huan

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[โ€“] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

And Mozilla and Palantir and the Linux Foundation.

This entire letter is rancid. "Governments, invest in us!"

Policymakers have an important opportunity to act. This includes expanding access to compute for startups and researchers, investing in shared training assets (datasets, tools, evaluation frameworks)...

Mandatory "distillation is good when we do it but evil when foreigners do it". Good job Mozilla, my favorite "internet is for everyone" company, sinking into nationalism!

Distillation... reflects a long tradition of learning from, building upon, and improving existing technologies, a tradition that has helped drive innovation since the rise of the open-source software movement. By contrast, unlawful efforts to extract value from closed models raise legitimate concerns .

Full list:

  • American Innovators Network
    (AstroTurf front for Andreessen Horowitz)
  • Andreessen Horowitz
  • Arcee AI
  • Arena
  • Black Forest Labs
  • Box
  • CrowdStrike
  • Dell Technologies
  • Emergence Capital
  • Hugging Face
  • IBM
  • The Linux Foundation
  • Mariana Minerals
  • Meta
  • Microsoft
  • Mistral
  • Mozilla
  • NVIDIA
  • Palantir
  • Perplexity
  • Reflection
  • Replit
  • ServiceNow
  • Telnyx
  • Y Combinator
[โ€“] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Mozilla hasn't been a great advocate for openness for a very long time. They are just a little less bad than Google, but mainly so because they only control the browser and nothing else. If they had more resources they'd be exactly like Google.

I use their stuff for exactly that reason: they are not as powerful as Google, but make no mistake, they are just like the others.

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