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The cash required to develop and train the models makes the open-source approach challenging, if not impossible, for companies who don't have another business to support it. You need to be Meta - with a huge cash cow - to have the option to give away your work for free. After all OpenAI tried and came to the conclusion that it couldn't succeed as a pure open-source non-profit company no?


> OpenAI tried and came to the conclusion that it couldn't succeed as a pure open-source non-profit company no?

Is that what they concluded?

Or did they find they could either have an open source company or $80 Billion and make the decision most of us would make in that situation?




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