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beep@beep@piefed.world
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Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-weight AI

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

Lobsters.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/
Microsoft Corporate ResponsibilityOpen Weights and American AI LeadershipOpen weight AI can expand access, strengthen competition, improve security, and help sustain American AI leadership.
XLE@XLE@piefed.social
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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
Illustration of the Capitol dome with scaffolding all around made from a glowing circuit pattern. AxiosExclusive: "Little Tech" launches new policy coalitionA new group focused on boosting "Little Tech" has launched.
XLE@XLE@piefed.social

Replying to an earlier post

The Linux Foundation isn’t Linux per se, but it funds a lot of the development. And they are funded the most by Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle. And the best known Linux Foundation funded developer, Linus Torvalds, is an AI pusher himself now.

So that might be why they signed on.

www.linuxfoundation.orgMembers of the Linux FoundationLinux Foundation members help support the development of shared technology resources while accelerating their own innovation through open source.
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