Many concerns this weekend about slowing down AI, some targeting open models.
We need to be responsible. But we can't let this slow down, or worse, prohibit open models. It's the wrong risk. Open models have tremendous power to democratize AI and make it more personal.
The larger risk I see with open models is right in front of us: in the last week I've read about how many popular platforms quietly send data to foreign jurisdictions, or worse, sell or train on it to gain an advantage. And this is becoming more and more mainstream.
Now more than ever open model vendors must act in the user's best interest, not their own: zero data retention or training, and hosting in the user's region vs sending data overseas.
This has been our belief and commitment with
@ollama. Nobody needs to slow down open models. We need to distribute and run them in a way users can trust.