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Re: OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback

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I'm surprised they expect people to voluntarily undergo that interrogation, for their feedback to then be processed by some LLM.

If you're interested in the field, why wouldn't you answer the questionnaire? It costs you basically nothing while the upside is getting something that is potentially at least a tiny bit more useful to you than if you hadn't said anything?

Re: OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback

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This definitely feels like a move made out of desperation, but I admit I'm curious to see what they release. It's fascinating that some of the best-funded startups of the 2020s are all rushing to commoditize their core technology as quickly as possible. They all seem to have the same business model as the Change Bank from SNL

Desperation? How so?

The cynical late-stage-capitalism argument for releasing an open source model is for PR/goodwill and hoping for the chance the model becomes a foundation model in the OSS community. But OpenAI definitely isn't operating around good PR and the chance of releasing a foundation model is unlikely given the competition.

Re: OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback

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> Let's start with your details

Well obviously they will have thousands of applications from which they need to make a selection removing trolls, luddites, etc.

How would you do it without asking for some applicants' details?

Re: OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback

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post #9

This definitely feels like a move made out of desperation, but I admit I'm curious to see what they release. It's fascinating that some of the best-funded startups of the 2020s are all rushing to commoditize their core technology as quickly as possible. They all seem to have the same business model as the Change Bank from SNL

Desperation? How so? The cynical late-stage-capitalism argument for releasing an open source model is for PR/goodwill and hoping for the chance the model becomes a foundation model in the OSS community. But OpenAI definitely isn't operating around good PR and the chance of releasing a foundation model is unlikely given the competition.

Orgs and individuals are chasing sentiment to cash out while valuations are inflated (there has been some expectation deflation, see Microsoft terming datacenter leases and the CoreWeave IPO fizzle), but open models are still welcome (democratization).

Re: OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback

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OpenAI should release its frontier model as an open-weight model. There are already open-weight models that match OpenAI's best models (at the time of their release), so the idea that OpenAI would lose something by making its frontier models open-weight doesn't hold up. With an open-weight model, they would instantly kill any proprietary competitor, similar to what Google did to all its competitors with Android.

IMO, OpenAI should focus on tooling, infra, and setting standards for AI apps and profit from those. MCP is what "custom GPT" is supposed to be; OpenAI lost that battle, among many others.

Gopher started as a freely available protocol but later changed its licensing terms, requiring fees to be paid—similar to what OpenAI has done. We know how Gopher ended up: today, most people haven't even heard of it, despite its adoption at the beginning.

Re: OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised they expect people to voluntarily undergo that interrogation, for their feedback to then be processed by some LLM.

If you're interested in the field, why wouldn't you answer the questionnaire? It costs you basically nothing while the upside is getting something that is potentially at least a tiny bit more useful to you than if you hadn't said anything?

It takes time and will likely be ignored.
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