Open source quotes
25 quotes from 13 people
- Since about April 2025, Chinese AI companies have been the clear leader in open-weight models.
+1more from this blog
- Basically anything that can be learned through RL can be distilled very easily, because it’s a small number of bits.
- Cost-saving efforts reveal that moving simpler workloads to open AI models is the easiest way to save ~50% on AI bills.
- The long and short of it is this: marginal costs are back in a big way, both in terms of short-term implications of state-of-the-art free models, and in terms of the long-term structure of the industry.
- Open models lack the central economic champion to represent the potential downside of action against them.
+2more from this blog
- I think the reason it is relatively easy for open source and previous laggards to catch up to within months of the frontier is that data is the real driver of progress.
- By shaping the capabilities of these systems from the ground up, we can help establish a global foundation for AI that empowers developers to build the next generation of applications.
+1more from this press
- Structurally, I think there will always be an open source model that will be fairly capable in the world that you could then use, as long as you have something that you can use that with, which is data and a scaffolding.
- Indeed, the best open-source and open-weight models may become industry standard setters.
- You can basically take a model that's much bigger, and capture probably 90 or 95% of its intelligence, and run it in something that's 10% of the size.
+1more from this podcast
- You know what I think, I think it was a mistake to think of storage as a revenue stream.
- It was either going to be a startup or someone outside the current center of leadership and innovation in AI, which is mostly clustered around trillion-dollar companies in the US.
- We continue to see great momentum in AI as our models are trusted, fit-for-purpose, and lower cost, with performance leadership.
- I believe the Llama 3.1 release will be an inflection point in the industry where most developers begin to primarily use open source, and I expect that approach to only grow from here.
+4more from this essay
- Our adversaries are great at espionage, stealing models that fit on a thumb drive is relatively easy, and most tech companies are far from operating in a way that would make this more difficult.
- There is an ongoing debate about the safety of open source AI models, and my view is that open source AI will be safer than the alternatives.
- Third, a key difference between Meta and closed model providers is that selling access to AI models isn’t our business model.
- Today, Linux is the industry standard foundation for both cloud computing and the operating systems that run most mobile devices – and we all benefit from superior products because of it. I believe that AI will develop in a similar way.
- Every quote from Mark Zuckerberg
- On the flip side, one of the reasons why I'm philosophically so pro open source is that I do think that a concentration of AI in the future has the potential to be as dangerous as it being widespread.
- So the direction of inevitable direction of history is that the vast majority of AI systems will be built on top of open source platforms.