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The Battle for Dominance in the AI Market: Licensing vs Open Source

An interesting struggle for the AI market is unfolding before our eyes. Sam Altman is trying to push the idea of licensing AI products.

<p>💥<strong>The Battle for Dominance in the AI Market: Licensing vs Open Source</strong></p>

<p>An interesting struggle for the AI market is unfolding before our eyes. Recently, there were hearings in the Senate (by the way, a pretty cool tool for the government to understand and regulate areas it knows nothing about; remember how in one of those hearings Mark Zuckerberg tried to explain what the internet is?) where, under the pretext of security from AI threats, OpenAI founder Sam Altman tried to push the idea of licensing AI products. Not all of them, just the most powerful ones. The idea is that open-source projects can play in their sandbox without restrictions until they start posing a real competition to us - and then let’s choke them with licensing.</p>

<p>What do you think, who will win?</p>

<p>▶️ An open-source perspective: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I72_GJHzH3Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I72_GJHzH3Y</a></p>;
<p>▶️ A detailed analysis from Machine Learning Street Talk (by the way, a really cool channel, I recommend subscribing): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeSXnESGxr4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeSXnESGxr4</a></p>;
<p>🔗 The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-artificial-intelligence-regulation.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-artificial-intelligence-regulation.html</a></p>;

<p>#openai #opensource #sam_altman</p>

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