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If every model needs to be open source then AI companies need to be taxpayer funded otherwise they'll never make a profit. Until then a for profit, gated approach is the only way to build up enough funds for SOTA R&D

>>atleas+(OP)
The R&D will march forward regardless of profitability, there's already been a ton of innovation in the open source space. You're likely to see less innovation with these companies squatting on their IP, data and hardware moats. Case in point: pre-stable diffusion AI vs post-stable diffusion AI. So much innovation happened as soon as the model was "opened".