Open AI Faces Uphill Battle Against Big Tech's Resources and Infrastructure
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Open-source AI faces limitations, as tech giants have the resources and infrastructure that small organizations lack to build advanced models. Even "open" models rely on Big Tech's servers and platforms.
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Truly open AI requires more transparency about training data, code, and other details, but even providing all that may not enable others to replicate or compete with tech companies' models.
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Efforts are underway to shift AI development toward public institutions and build smaller open models, but resource constraints persist. Tech giants even profit from open-source tools they provide.
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Championing open AI could be a strategy for tech firms to combat regulation, while still dominating the field and shaping research priorities.
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Benefiting from open AI requires not just technical openness, but reimagining AI's goals beyond narrow metrics like scale and performance valued by Big Tech.