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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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[–] 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

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that is a bit taken out of context. they claim is that we need open weight models so other ais can distill. the bit you ripped out is about the legality not what they think is right. this post is abput making i open.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Really? Because the more I look at it, the worse it gets!

By contrast, unlawful efforts to extract value from closed models raise legitimate concerns. Those concerns should be addressed through targeted legal and commercial frameworks rather than sweeping restrictions on techniques that play an important role in AI innovation.

That bold part describes corporate capture. Mandatory "frameworks" for the companies that can afford to build them out.

And the nationalism is all over. Just Ctrl+F "America". Here is Mozilla telling the government to put AI in classrooms:

America wins the AI era by diffusing it into the workflows of factories, hospitals, farms, classrooms, and main street businesses.

And here is the America First part a bit louder in case you missed it the first time:

The age of AI can be one of prosperity. With the right choices, open weight AI can expand opportunity, strengthen competition, extend American technological leadership...

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