Will we always have to rely on companies with the funds and resources to give us open models or can/will it be possible to democratize training for models capable of performing at or near the same level as the big closed ones in the future at some point?
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I’m really hoping at some point we won’t have to rely on the good will of companies with the funds and resources to make capable models open and it’ll be possible to democratize making them so we won’t always be at the mercy of big tech/corpos, that is if they don’t ban open models before that can…
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