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Maybe this is an intentional leak to damage OpenAI.

A supposedly better model by some accounts that strikes right at the heart of their business plan of selling access for $250k/year. One month of access to their service could buy a machine capable of running this leaked model.

Facebook nerfs a potential upstart competitor to keep current big-tech cartel stable.

Maybe this is a bit conspiratorial, but we live in the age big-tech and big-conspiracy.

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IMO it's way more likely that some random guy on 4chan leaked it than it being some vast conspiracy.

Why leak it instead of just publishing it along with a press release about openness and democratizing AI and so on?

because then you don't need to explain to shareholders why you're giving away something that could potentially be worth a few hundred million dollars.

"Potentially" is doing a lot of work here. I'd say that the trained model is worth approximately as much as the electricity that was required to train it.

See: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqMiv31aEAAjd-3?format=jpg&name=...

Not a conspiracy at all. See also IE, Android, Kubernetes...

I missed the one about K8S, do you have any resources?

I am not aware of Android and Kubernetes being leaks, they were open source from the start. For Android, openness was a big marketing point. I am not aware of IE leaks, and if there were leaks, hackers searching for exploits would be probably be the most interested, and that would be a bad thing for Microsoft.

The problem with leaks is that they don't come with a license, you don't have the right to use them for any legitimate purpose. No one who could afford a 250k/year license would touch that leak as it could get them in big trouble.

Any links about IE, Android and Kubernetes? I'm not up on these being ops.

He's not saying they are leaks, he's saying that they are examples of a large company releasing a product for free to crush the competition. I don't necessarily agree with him, especially about Kubernetes.

Kubernetes is a tool that makes portability between clouds easier - and it was released by a challenger brand in cloud.

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