Many of yesterdayâs talks were littered with the acronyms youâd expect from this assemblage of high-minded panelists: YC, FTC, AI, LLMs. But threaded throughout the conversationsâfoundational to them, you might sayâwas boosterism for open source AI.
It was a stark left turn (or return, if youâre a Linux head) from the app-obsessed 2010s, when developers seemed happy to containerize their technologies and hand them over to bigger platforms for distribution.
The event also happened just two days after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared that âopen source AI is the path forwardâ and released Llama 3.1, the latest version of Metaâs own open source AI algorithm. As Zuckerberg put it in his announcement, some technologists no longer want to be âconstrained by what Apple will let us build,â or encounter arbitrary rules and app fees.
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