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title: "Timeline photos A Google engineer lays out the case for why open…"
date: 2023-05-04
source: facebook
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# Timeline photos A Google engineer lays out the case for why open…

*May 4, 2023 · Facebook*

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A Google engineer lays out the case for why open source AI will overtake closed source AI efforts.\
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\"\...But the uncomfortable truth is, we aren't positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we've been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch.\
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I'm talking, of course, about open source. Plainly put, they are lapping us. Things we consider "major open problems" are solved and in people's hands today. Just to name a few:\
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LLMs on a Phone: People are running foundation models on a Pixel 6 at 5 tokens / sec.\
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Scalable Personal AI: You can finetune a personalized AI on your laptop in an evening.\
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Responsible Release: This one isn't "solved" so much as "obviated". There are entire websites full of art models with no restrictions whatsoever, and text is not far behind.\
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Multimodality: The current multimodal ScienceQA SOTA was trained in an hour.\
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While our models still hold a slight edge in terms of quality, the gap is closing astonishingly quickly. Open-source models are faster, more customizable, more private, and pound-for-pound more capable. They are doing things with \$100 and 13B params that we struggle with at \$10M and 540B. And they are doing so in weeks, not months. This has profound implications for us\...\"\
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[https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither](https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither){target="_blank"}
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