Open Source Community
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Feldman: Chinese open-source AI techniques force closed labs to innovate
“The open source community has sort of kept the interest alive and kept the flame going. And I think that, that the and pushed the closed source guys. I think the sort of techniques that we saw by some of the Chinese Like, whoa, we gotta stay ahead of that, rig…”
Gerstner: China's open-source AI innovation cycle is currently faster than the US
“If you just watch the pace of releases, the quality of the releases out of China, the cycle time on the innovation and the open source community out of China, it's faster and better at the moment.”
Kumar: Open source won't solve AI voice and personality features
“But other parts in particular, kind of some of the personality aspects, some of the voice aspects, the speech generation, we didn't think and we still don't think will just be kind of done by the community. We think we will need to do it because that's kind of…”
Framing monetization early would have averted open-source backlash
“Looking back, if I had if I had pitched them correctly, like, We are today open source, but maybe in the future we will need to monetize, then I wouldn't have had that many issues.”
Soldani: Open Source AI "Dodged a Bullet" on California's SB 1047
“I look at things like the SBE, 1047 from California, and I think we kind of dodged a bullet bullet on, on this legislation. We, you know, the open source community, a lot of the community came together at the last, sort of the last minute and did a very good e…”
Pinterest manages open-source data tech in-house to limit downtime
“Yeah, we do. I mean, we're fortunate to have the number of engineers to do that, and one of the reasons why we work directly either with the open source community or the companies that are also working on that is that we want Pinterest to be up all the time, a…”
Rogers: Community is the sole unifying force in open source
“The community is like literally the only thing holding these people together, even at the time that they're doing the work.”
Levine: Mismanaging open-source communities causes contributors to fork codebases
“If you don't manage the community in a proper way, the community will say, well, they're not doing what we want. We're going to fork the code and go run off and do, we're going to just do the whole thing.”
Levine: Modern open-source communities accept that companies must generate revenue
“The open source community has matured over the years, and I do believe that the community... Is sensitive and is appreciative of companies needing to actually make revenue and kind of have a business as opposed to just being a charity where everything's given …”