Billions in proprietary AI? No more.
OpenAI raised billions on promise of having and securing behind thick doors something no other is even remotely close to. The following tweet from just few days prior R1 release made me think they really have atomic bomb the world will knee for;
The truth is, they have nothing. o1-level, some say human-level reasoning is reproducible, can be privately hosted by anyone, anywhere. Can't be greedily priced.
MIT licensed open models is the future of AI. Zero dollars is the only right price for something made on all human knowledge. It is a sum of effort of the whole civilisation, spanning many generations. Just imagine, any book that landed in the pretraining dataset influences the whole model. There is no better way to honor any author contributing to the overall model performance, knowingly or not than to make a tool that help create new knowledge, available for anyone, at no cost.