open-weight models

“At least for now, there's a constant stream of closed models that are released sometime before an equivalently capable open, open weight model, right? And I think this is actually a very good thing because my hope would be that, and we've sort of found ourselv…”

“I think that open-weight models is a tremendous source of geopolitical influence.”

“At USV, we're really interested in the Rebel Alliance. This new universe of open weight models and open source harnesses and distributed compute and agents, right? Human aligned agents.”

“While they're not saying they want to ban these things, they're advocating a series of steps that would add up to de facto banning or at least slowing them down.”

“One of the really interesting things about these open weight models is the impact they're having and the ability to be a drag on price for the US, you know, closed source frontier model companies.”

“This is what open weight models are generally really good at compared to frontier models. When you have a deterministic task where you know the shape of the output, you know the type of problem that you're working on, and it's a type of problem that has been s…”

“If you are an enabling technology for open-weight models, now is peak moment.”

“I don't, because I think it, especially in the enterprise, they want provisions and protections that potentially open weight models, especially those that come out of China, cannot provide. Around indemnification, for example, and output inference, and it's go…”

“Today, I think it is. If I look out a year or two from now, I think a lot of these concerns will be addressed.”

“Scheduling movies, working with one's calendar, answering emails that have been answered before, doing research on competitors on a daily basis. Like, all these kinds of things, I think, are trending pretty far from the frontier, right? And you can already use…”

“I can improve our cogs by moving to open weight, but it doesn't give me much product advantage. It doesn't make my product work better.”