A thing many leaders of organizations have not internalized is the fact that no one in any company* or government has access to a better LLM than the ones billions of people around the world can use for between $0-$20/month Very unusual to have democratized access from the start
* Yes, the AI labs have models that are more advanced, but they are generally releasing them quite quickly after training is completed.
Don’t think this is true at all. OpenAI was sitting on Sora for many months before they showcased it and will continue to do so for many months still before they release it. In general many AI labs have much stronger unreleased models waiting for safety teams to lobotomize / weaken them before making them public. In addition when they finally do you get a compute/inference or cap limited weaker version when finally making it available.
@emollick Not true at all. We get the heavily neutered models in the name of safety.
@emollick That public access is one of the most radical things to happen in tech in decades. Really bold (and awesome) from OpenAI.
@emollick This is what happens when commercial orgs start to lead technological innovation vs government bodies
@emollick This leads into an abundance paradigm and it places non obvious incentives and paradoxes
@emollick I dispute this, because the leading LLMs are crippled by censorship.