Good, it's going to be important for this tech to be open. Stability has been hurting for support in comparison to OpenAI, Meta, and Google. Hopefully this can really help them moving forwards.
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Does Stability AI open source their models?
Investing in one company is not a bet against another company.
Especially when stability is doing something completely different from openai
Honest question. How are they completely different?
OpenAI is known for ChatGPT, which is a text generator that works for things like writing a haiku. Though OpenAI also has a image generating AI (DALLE), it doesn't seem nearly as popular as its competitors Midjourney and SDXL. People just assume ChatGPT is OpenAI's main product, but they are actually competing on everything.
Didn't OpenAI start getting massive investments from Microsoft and then became ClosedAI?
Edit: Not that I necessarily think this will happen here. If anything, Stable Diffusion might run much better on ARC cards (or whatever their Neural Processing Unit becomes) and give a viable alternative to Nvidia
Unless anti-trust law changes, Google will just buy ChatGPT and Stability to reduce competition and form a new monopoly.
???
You know Microsoft already owns chat gpt right?
Well that's just straight up not true.
OpenAI owns ChatGPT. Microsoft is a partner, but not an owner.
49% ownership means they dictate what Open AI does. Don't kid yourself.
Sure, but to say Microsoft owns OpenAI is still disingenuous without that disclaimer.
It's a distinction only legally.
At 49% ownership and being 100x the value of Open AI that is effectively the same as full control. Open AI cannot blink without Microsoft getting right of first refusal.
They own a minority stake in the company
True, but that minority stake is 49%
Google will just buy 51% then, duh /s
Doesn't really matter if it's Google or Microsoft... Big Tech will just buy competition, the OP is right about that.
All this AI stuff will end up being completely under the control of Big Tech, and this is why Google went out and said that they can't compete with open source models. Because they are worried that they will appear to have as much power as they actually have. They want to look like they are just another tech company but in reality, they are building the foundation for the future dystopia right now.
What do you think they will do with their massive cloud infrastructure and unlimited cpu processing capabilities? I don't think almost anyone understands how powerful they are. Because we use Google and Microsoft every day with their colorful icons, we don't see them as a threat.
In the AI race, so far I'm hoping, assuming what they say about them is true, that Anthropic's Claude wins. I've read that the founders were former OpenAI employees who were concerned about macrohard funding and that AI should value safety first and foremost. That line of thinking is something you never see anymore when large companies try to financially back new tech.
Probably the biggest downside is that the article I found talking about them is that they mention getting funding from gøøgl€, which is always a little worrying.