face(@face_east_):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.”

2026.08.10 14:43

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.”