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Tech Visionary Confirms the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
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It’s no surprise that O’Reilly— publisher, internet pioneer, VC, conference organizer, and dispenser of tech wisdom —is applying that metric to the way people design and use AI.
Key facts
- One of the things they're working on at their nonprofit, the AI Disclosures Project, is the idea of an open-memory consortium
- Mark Zuckerberg’s thesis is, he’s going to lock you in because Meta will give you the AI that knows you best
- TIM O'REILLY: First, let's make sure they're talking about the same thing
- The team could win frontier AI here in the US, and China will kick their ass because they have lower-level models diffused widely through society
Summary
Tim O’Reilly’s yardstick for measuring the worth of a company, person, or society has long been create more value than you capture. O’Reilly sees AI as a new creative medium, which he uses extensively—and even has a blog about his chats with it. TIM O'REILLY: First, let's make sure they're talking about the same thing. When most people talk about open-source AI, they're talking about open-weight models. The big labs are reading the future wrong. They have told themselves a narrative where having the biggest, best model is the key to the future. Isn’t it against the interests of big companies to give up control?