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Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I by linkregister on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:53PM (#49570078)
Anthropic, OpenAI, GDM, and Meta spend more on training than other labs by an order of magnitude. If they felt safe reducing this spend they would. These labs fear getting outcompeted.
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Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I by nvme0n1p1 on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:59PM (#49570130)
Again, I am talking about inference, not training. Please read.
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Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I by linkregister on Friday September 04, 2026 @07:44PM (#49571504)
I indeed failed to understand your point. Isn't that what they already do with Claude Haiku, GPT-5.6-Terra, etc?
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Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I by nvme0n1p1 on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:54AM (#49575677)
That's the goal, but those smaller models don't match the price:performance of leading open-weight models, which is why companies are switching away (as explained in TFA).

The open weight labs figured out some secret sauce that (so far) big name labs are unable to replicate, so instead of competing, they're going on the defensive with claims of distillation attacks.

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Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I by linkregister on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:09PM (#49618968)
Again, in the friendly article, only one company is on record. The article allows the reader to make whatever inferences she may want to make.
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Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I by linkregister on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:30PM (#49570458)
How do you think they fund training? This is just as asinine as insisting that drug manufacturers only price medications based on production costs.
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Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I by nvme0n1p1 on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:38PM (#49570535)
Less opex = more profits. They can use that money to fund training. I don't see how that could possibly be a bad thing.
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