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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The article discusses the hope that training capable AI models will become democratized so that reliance on big tech companies for open models is reduced.
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