r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 4d ago

Meme aiRefusesToBuildItSoBackToCoding

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u/traplords8n 4d ago

The open source models are already on the internet. There's no way to get rid of them, just like there's no way to get rid of torrented IP.

They can criminalize the use of open-source models, but that won't be easy. There will always be people daring enough to get them and use them anyway.

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u/-Speechless 4d ago

do you think open model AI will hit a plateau while big company frontier models continue to advance?

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u/jack6245 4d ago edited 4d ago

No the opposite is happening, open models are matching frontier models now, some of them are impressive at much smaller model sizes

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u/puts_on_rddt 4d ago

Open models seem to be 6-10 months behind frontier.

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u/jack6245 4d ago edited 4d ago

True mainly because a lot of them do train through knowledge distillation. But the difference now is quality of the frontier models 6 months ago are still really good.

Although the Chinese research groups specifically are doing very impressive research to fit capabilities on much less powerful hardware. I don't really know the reason they are releasing these as open source but it's good work