Meta taps Hugging Face to spur adoption of open source AI models

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29 points·thunderbong··5 comments

In general I am not a fan of Meta/Facebook but I very much appreciate their support of open models.

Given a choice between locked down AI controlled by a few large corporations and governments or a more open ecosystem, I strongly prefer the second option. There is a lot of great work done to keep things open, so let’s hope for the best outcome.

I routinely run 7B and 13B models at home, and they are capable enough for many types of projects.

Yeah this is really the one thing Meta is doing right at present. And sure, the reasoning and corporate strategy behind it is pretty transparent. But it’s still good. Similar to Apple pursuing carbon neutral. Who cares if it’s just dedicated posturing if the outcome is net good.

Why invest in a Paris-based accelerator for AI, considering how hostile the government is towards AI and keen on regulating it into obscurity?

France and Germany drive EU politics. If the politicians there are benefitting from AI then they're less likely to regulate it out of existance. The EU creates policy that the rest of the west tends to move towards, so if you can stop the slide there, you can ultimately slow it everywhere.

> Why invest in a Paris-based accelerator for AI, considering how hostile the government is towards AI and keen on regulating it into obscurity?

Do you have any example of this? In particular any example that goes beyond "saying that companies can't use as much AI as they want all the time without restriction no matter the impact on people"?

Because "intent on regulating AI into obscurity" isn't how I'd describe the French government.

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