Not to invalidate your feelings of fatigue, but I’m sure glad that there are a lot of choices in the marketplace, and that they are innovating at a decent clip. If you’re committed to always be using the best of all options you’re in for a wild ride, but it beats stagnation and monopoly.
We’re also headed into a world where there will be very few open weight models coming out (Meta going closed source, not releasing Behemoth). This era of constant model releases may be over before it even started. Gratitude definitely needs to be echoed.
> If China stays open, then the rest of the world will build on open
I was listening to a Taiwanese news channel earlier today and although I wasn't paying much attention, I remember hearing about how Chinese AIs are biased towards Chinese political ideas and that some programme to create a more Taiwanese-aligned AI was being put in place.
I wouldn't be surprised if just for this reason, at least a few different open models kept being released, because even if they don't directly bring in money, several actors care more about spreading or defending their ideas and IAs are perfect for that.
I don’t disagree, but I feel comfortable enough using Moonshot’s Kimi K2 API for engineering use cases. It is also good that the model can be used via USA based providers.
I'm expecting any day now (they are slow thinkers over there) xAI to start releasing Christian Fascist centric LLMs with a distorted angry Jesus and the entire Bible rewritten for Fascist authoritarianism. Any day now.
It's curious that China is carrying the open banner nowadays. Why is that?
One theory is that they believe the real endpoint value will be embodied AIs (i.e. robots), where they think they'll hold a long-term competitive advantage. The models themselves will become commoditized, under the pressure of the open-source models.
