closed-source models
also referred to as: closed source model · closed source models
6 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2024 by Soumith Chintala · across every show →
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Mar 6, 2024
Chintala: Childhood trust in institutions determines views on open AI safety
“And this might be a little controversial, but like, I find a lot of arguments, ah, based on whether, like, closed source models are safer, or open source models are safer, very much related to whether, what kind of cultural, ah, culture they grew up in, what k…”
Nov 25, 2024 bullish
Sep 8, 2025 bearish
Oct 1, 2025 bullish
Feldman: AI startups are replacing closed-source models with fine-tuned open-source
“I think for sort of AI companies like Cognition, like all your competitors, like AlphaSense, like dozens of others, they are trying to replace closed source models with very, very fast open source models, and they're trying to drive the open source Accuracy dr…”
Mar 30, 2026 negative
Lample: Closed models prevent enterprises from leveraging proprietary domain data
“When customers use this off-the-shelf closed model, what's very sad is that they are not leveraging, you know, these data that they have been collecting for four years, or sometimes for decades. So much data, sometimes it's trillions of tokens or data in a ver…”