Xi Jinping calls for more open-source AI: 'China is ready to be more open'

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Xi Jinping calls for more open-source AI: 'China is ready to be more open'

Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for more open-source AI in a speech on Thursday. He encouraged "open-source, openness, collaboration, and sharing."

TL;DR

Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for AI to be more open-source, open, collaborative, and shared.
Many leading Chinese AI models are open-source, unlike most American models which are proprietary.
Xi Jinping also called for global regulation of AI and criticized the US for AI protectionism.
He proposed using AI to increase understanding and tolerance globally.
Xi vowed to provide AI training and seminar opportunities to countries with less advanced AI technology to bridge the digital divide.

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clem 🤗 reposted

Sriram Krishnan

It is clear open source models and harnesses are having a moment. There's a few factors at work

1/ It is now obvious that you can catch up to near-SOTA performance and do so with a clear training lineage. See:@thinkymachines Inkling launch today.

2/ There are several well-funded, talented teams building open weight models now in the US and abroad. Along with the explosing of other near SOTA models (Grok/Cursor, Muse Spark), it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models atleast on coding and agentic use.

3/ Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control. Organizations and countries are increasingly nervous about the frontier labs potentially competing with them down the road and don't want their data to enable a future competitor.

4/ Open source is a slider: you could bring your own open harness, your evals, your business context and are free to pick and choose your model of choice.

5/ Companies have now actively shifted from "how do we get our people to use tokens" to being uncomfortable with their token cost ballooning without a clear line to revenue.

6/ Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.

All of this leads to more choice for all of us !

Yann LeCun reposted

Sriram Krishnan

It is clear open source models and harnesses are having a moment. There's a few factors at work

1/ It is now obvious that you can catch up to near-SOTA performance and do so with a clear training lineage. See:@thinkymachines Inkling launch today.

4/ Open source is a slider: you could bring your own open harness, your evals, your business context and are free to pick and choose your model of choice.

5/ Companies have now actively shifted from "how do we get our people to use tokens" to being uncomfortable with their token cost ballooning without a clear line to revenue.

6/ Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.

All of this leads to more choice for all of us !

clem 🤗 reposted

@jason

Absolutely fantastic moment happening in tech right now…

… open source enthusiasm combined with a dramatic drop in the cost of intelligence combined with personal hardware capable of running models locally is the emergence of the AI sovereignty stack 🫡💪❤️

clem 🤗

I’ve said it many times: the countries or companies that are leading in open science and open source AI will start leading the frontier a few years later as it accelerates AI progress massively! That’s how the US took the lead

clem 🤗

Banning open-source AI would hurt defenders 10x more than attackers, which would make the world 10x more dangerous and this is a good example why! https://t.co/Fv1z0zvJoZ

Yann LeCun reposted

clem 🤗

Banning open-source AI would hurt defenders 10x more than attackers, which would make the world 10x more dangerous and this is a good example why! https://t.co/Fv1z0zvJoZ

Yann LeCun reposted

Neeraj K. Agrawal

Open protocols won America the internet and the influence that came with it.

In a strange inversion, China is publishing open tools while America is giving in to authoritarian control impulses. Where will that leave us?

New from us:

https://t.co/ZdQ3FJ9a8d

Sam Altman

i want the US to win in AI both in open source and proprietary models, and i am glad to see this

clem 🤗 reposted

Sam Altman

i want the US to win in AI both in open source and proprietary models, and i am glad to see this

David Sacks reposted

Sam Altman

i want the US to win in AI both in open source and proprietary models, and i am glad to see this

Demis Hassabis

A strong and secure open ecosystem is important for the world to benefit from AI. We’ve always supported and contributed heavily to open source and science from Jax to Transformers to AlphaFold to Gemma open models which have now been downloaded 300M+ times. And the standards framework we’ve proposed supports responsible deployment of both open and proprietary models.

Sundar Pichai reposted

Demis Hassabis