Economics and Open vs Closed Source and GitHub 2024 Accelerator
A few other links and news bits for your AI morning.
Morning y’all!
I’m back in my present home state and it’s Memorial Day here in the US which means that, among many other things, folks are sleeping in for the first half and grilling, cooking out, and partying on the back half.
I will be doing none of those things but if you are then have fun! Just stay safe.
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
I saw this quote from someone I follow and I thought it was a useful reminder:
One of the biggest reasons people don't succeed is because they don't know what they want. Yes, everyone wants a lot of money, an attractive partner and so on, but what's your priority? What do you really want? Those other desires, the *results* are generally very vague and therein lies the problem. Your goals are not specific enough and your vision not clear.
That's why you lack passion. Because it hasn't come from you, it's come from envy of others.
The envy of others has driven many folks to pursue things that are not worth their time and yet we do it anyway. Pursue things that excite you, not the things that will make you like other people.
Elon Musk’s is building a supercomputer containing 100,000 GPUS and has been dubbed as the “gigafactory of compute”. Let’s hope it’s as amazing as it sounds.
And in-browser text-to-music generation tool. Very neat.
Mistral Finetune is their official repo on how to fine-tune any Mistral model.
Imagine a browsing and internet-centric world that’s safe for kids and families. That’s Hello Wonder and I have questions.
Here are the 11 projects that got into GitHub’s AI Accelerator for 2024. Good luck to all of them who made it in! Perhaps we’ll be hearing from them shortly after they kill it and go raise some ridiculous round!
Research at Microsoft shows it’s possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts. The technique could open up new use cases for AI.
Ouch. Here’s the kicker:
"Despite recent progress and endless cheerleading, open-source AI will become (1) a financial drain for model builders, (2) an inferior option for developers and consumers, and (3) a risk to national security."
It doesn’t douse cold water on the entire open source position but it does argue strongly that the economic and political incentives that are powering this particular boom is more unique than we’ve ever really experienced before.
I had some thoughts regarding open and closed source but it was more about folks getting upset about losing jobs. This angle and the topic that’s getting a lot of press is about incentives and economics and what is driving folks to do what they do (and invest in certain companies and avoid others).
The more important point was this: That it depends on where you are on the “Cap Table” and how you’re going to get paid in the end. Whether or not your open or closed has less to do about ostensibly the software and much more about how you’re going to make money.
I guess it all does really boil down to those base and simple things. Again.
Merlin sounds kind of cool:
Free AI Chat to answer queries, summarize videos, articles, PDFs, and websites, write emails, social media content, and review content using AI detection.
And that’s it friends! A light Monday to get us started. Have a great one!
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
