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DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence: In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own...
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www.fredgao.comDeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His SilenceIn a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own, he argues China's only real gap with America is compute.
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
I think it’s important to note that these models are open-WEIGHT and not open-SOURCE. Open-source would mean we could explore the training data itself. Open-weight models are great, but please let’s not call them open-source.
Replying to @712@discuss.tchncs.de
Yeah, it’s like an open-source distro that won’t work without an accompanying opaque binary blob.
Replying to @phutatorius@lemmy.zip
What distros are like this?
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
It is more a question of what hardware is like that and if you look up firmware blobs for Linux you’ll find a lot, starting with graphic cards.
Replying to @motruck@lemmy.zip
That’s the hardware not the distro
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
Yeah and the hardware is what requires blobs regardless of the distro.
Replying to @motruck@lemmy.zip
It wouldn’t require blobs if the driver code were open-sourced.
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
Distro was the wrong word. I should have said “package” (though there are also distros that attempt to eliminate blobs within their packages). Examples include manufacturer-issued device drivers, software that allows integration of GPUs, several parts of Android that integrate with the underlying hardware, firmware of various sorts, and I can’t be arsed to remember more at the moment.