"China has overtaken the US in the global market for 'open' artificial intelligence models, gaining a crucial edge over how the powerful technology is used around the world."
Beijing-backed technology gains ground as American giants hold fast to ‘closed’ AI strategies
1/2 We've heard of the curse of dimensionality. But what about the curse of multilinguality? "If you try to pack more languages into the same size model, they are each going to degrade," said @shaynelongpre.bsky.social of @mit.edu at the Simons Institute.
Policymakers must recognize the open source AI ecosystem is where influence is being negotiated: not just which models exist, but which are used; not just who can train a trillion-parameter network, but who can make it deployable, modifiable, and relevant, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.
To understand and shape the distribution of power in AI, look to the open source ecosystem, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.
