@ClementDelangue: How? Instead of closed-source frontier labs running the same training runs in secret and siloes, open science and open-…
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Clement Delangue argues that open science and open-source AI can make AI spending more efficient, contrasting US and China's AI investment strategies.
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How? Instead of closed-source frontier labs running the same training runs in secret and siloes, open science and open-source AI allows them to mutualize spending and compute making them an order of magnitude more efficient!
Rand Group (@randgroup): 🇺🇸 The United States will spend $1 trillion on AI in 2027.
🇨🇳 China will spend $123 billion and still ship frontier models.
How?
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