Illia Polosukhin argues that open-source AI is essential to keeping research accessible and preventing a handful of labs from controlling the field.
“Imagine Google never published the Transformer paper.”
“OpenAI might still be working on winning StarCraft.”
“Without open models, you either work for a major lab or have access to nothing.”
“New labs would have to start from scratch.”
“It would remove competition. Only a few would remain.”
“Open weights and open source are extremely valuable for accelerating research.”