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I wonder if ClosedAI and other companies use the findings of the open source community in their products. For example, do they use QLORA to reduce the costs of training and inference? Do they quantize their models to serve non-subscribing consumers?

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Quantization is hardly a "finding of the open source community". (IIRC the first TPU was int8! Though the tradition is much older than that.)

Not disagreeing with your points, but saying "ClosedAI" is about as clever as writing M$ for Microsoft back in the day, which is to say not very.

I'd say saying M$ makes it harder for M$ to find out I'm talking about them in them in the indexed web because it's more ambiguous, that's all I need to know.

If we are talking about indexing, writing M$ is easier to find in an index because it is a such unique token. MS can mean many things (e.g. Miss), M$ is less ambiguous.

I think it’s ironic that M$ made ClosedAI.

Pedantic but that's not irony

Why do you think so? According to the dictionary, ironic could be something paradoxical or weird.

Well it's not paradoxical?

If one is the kind of person who writes M$ then it's pretty much expected behaviour.

Yeah, I think it feigns meaningful criticism. The "Sleepy Joe"-tier insults are ad-hominem enough that I don't try to respond.

M$ is a silly way to call Microsoft greedy. ClosedAI is somewhat better because OpenAI's very name is a bald-faced lie, and they should be called on it. Are there more elegant ways to do that? Sure, but every time I see Altman in the news crying crocodile tears about the "dangers" of open anything I think we need all the forms of opposition we can find.

It is a colloquial spelling and they earned it, a long time ago.

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