Housekeeping: No voiceover for this post as I’m traveling. The oldest comparison people try to make is how what’s happening with open models compares to foundational open-source software projects like the Linux operating system. There are fairly clean analogies, but they paint a narrow path forwards for the self-sustaining nature of the open-source model ecosystem, where once Linux got big enough it was going to be self-fulfilling as the best possible tool for many jobs. The open-source language model – i.e. only models that come with a full training recipe, data, code, etc. – is a closer anal