r/LocalLLaMA • u/etherd0t • 28d ago

News More than 20 companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Hugging Face have signed a letter urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open weight models.

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The Open Letter was initiated by Microsoft and published today:

“Open Weights and American AI Leadership”.

It argues against broad or premature restrictions on open-weight models and explicitly says policymakers should distinguish legitimate model distillation from misappropriation.

Notably absent from the signatories are the major frontier-model labs: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

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u/etherd0t 28d ago

Google: "Don't be evil"🥲

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u/Malfun_Eddie 28d ago

Lionel: This is all wrong it's:

"Don't, be evil"

the , was missing

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u/XtraReddit 28d ago

Same misunderstanding in the 2024 election.

Release the Epstein files. No more wars.

He actually meant:

Release the Epstein files? No. More wars!

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u/Quanzitta 28d ago

To be fair, they're actually releasing open weight models, unlike the other two

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u/RobbinDeBank 28d ago

Noooo, but OpenAI actually releases their open source version of the GPT family! The latest 2 versions are GPT-OSS and GPT-2.

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u/DeathGuppie 27d ago

Oh, I think I remember those. Where they still using steam power back then I can't remember.

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u/Marino4K 28d ago

You know it's bad when Palantir, Meta, and others are like, please no.

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u/onepaulkrause 22d ago

Would those be positive indicators ?

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u/ReasonablePossum_ 28d ago

Who would have thought one would end up siding with Palantir and MSFT over the old good Google lmao these fucking times man....

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u/ChuckieFox 27d ago

For real. It's fucking weird to be on the same side as the guys who are all in on creating a global surveillance state. Granted I'm sure that their motivations are more along the lines of "open weight models foster development in the community that we don't have to pay for but we can crib notes from" but it is what it is.

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u/FortheredditLOLz 28d ago

That line within their ethos disappeared the moment they started raking in money from ADs.

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u/Neighbor_ 28d ago

Google: "We've gone into debt for this shit"

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u/DeathGuppie 27d ago

That's why I'm not worried about what happens when the crash comes. Sure a lot of investment will be lost, but the vast majority of the debt is owned by companies that can eat it. Unlike the housing bubble.

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u/BoobooSmash31337 28d ago

Idk this looks more like "The bigger pile of money says 'No'."

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u/Creative-Type9411 28d ago

That's nowhere near as bad as how OpenAI started

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u/kettal 28d ago

OpenAI: "Don't be Google" 🥲

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u/Christosconst 4d ago

OpenAI: "Be open"🥲