I don’t think enough credit is given to the role the GPL played in making Linux successful. The more liberal BSD-style licenses resulted in every hardware maker selling their own slightly incompatible fork of UNIX where las the GPL forced everyone to unite behind a single code base, which is what you want for an operating system.
I think people overestimate the amount of secret sauce needed to train these models. The reason AI has come this far since AlexNet is that most of the foundational techniques are easy to share and implement, and that companies have been surprisingly willing to share their tricks openly, at least until OpenAI decide to become evil hoarders.
Given that you can download and use the weights, the model architecture has to be includded as part of that. And I did read a paper from them recently describing their MoE architecture and how it differs from the original GShard.
Almost every fourth Tesla Model 3 model year 2020 failed its periodic vehicle inspection in 2024. The popular model has defects in particular in the brakes, lights, wheels and steering, according to inspection data processed by FDM (the Danish AAA.)
The average failure rate across all brands is 9%.
The value that gets created might not have been created otherwise. The key is taxation, which is where the US and other countries have failed since the Reagan years.
For me the relative tranquility of Mastodon is not a bug but a feature. I deleted my Twitter account shortly after Elon bought it, actually not so much because of him, but to get more time for being with my family and working on my startup.
