O'Driscoll: Meta's pivot to closed-source AI harms the ecosystem
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Rory O'Driscoll, General Partner at Scale Venture Partners, reacts to Meta's debut of Muse Spark and its strategic shift away from fully open-source AI models.
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“Also worth noting that they're talking about being much more closed source, which is a significant thing, because at some point someone's going to need the American version of open source, and Lama was that, and now they're pivoting more to be more closed source, which has implications across the ecosystem, and is a bit of a bummer.”
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