Xueba's computing system

Chapter 255 Musk's Pig Teammates

In the short term, Lin Yuankai's move has opened a standard entrance to the food delivery industry.

Tesla's food delivery service originally had a standard entrance and algorithm advantage, which allowed it to completely gain a foothold in the domestic mid- to high-end food delivery market. Lin Yuan's move eliminated Tesla's food delivery technology advantage and gave foreign companies a fair chance to compete with it.

Once the technological advantage is gone, no company can be more competitive than these domestic competition kings if it relies solely on competition.

In the short term, Lin Yuan is protecting the domestic takeout market and preventing it from being controlled by foreign capital.

Therefore, based on this point alone, Lin Yuan deserves praise from the authorities.

But more importantly, Lin Yuan has brought up thoughts on the future development of science and technology. Lin Yuan's takeaway standards and algorithms do not blindly encourage competition, but rather achieve full competition through algorithms.

This kind of full competition is not just about the price of the coupons, but encourages each participant to develop his or her own characteristics.

"Making good use of technology" is Lin Yuan's long-term contribution.

Originally, due to these contributions, it was no problem for Lin Yuan to join the party. However, Lin Yuan was now deeply involved in a commercial dispute case abroad.

His move to open source Tesla food delivery was brought to the Xinxiang Court of the United States by Tesla's global headquarters.

Although Musk is the boss of Tesla, Tesla is a listed company and all major decisions must be made by the board of directors. Therefore, Musk cannot stop Tesla from suing Lin Yuan.

Since this business dispute involves a market value of hundreds of billions of US dollars, the Dragon State authorities cannot promote Lin Yuan to join the party at this critical juncture. Otherwise, it would be easy for the outside world to interpret it as the Dragon State authorities supporting Lin Yuan.

Therefore, the authorities only gave Lin Yuan an honorary title, and the reason for awarding the title was still from the perspective of a community with a shared future for mankind, praising Lin Yuan's move as a major contribution to the world's open source software field.

From the moral high ground, the Eagle Country should not over-interpret the Dragon Country's intentions in praising Lin Yuan.

But if Lin Yuan joins the party at this time, it will inevitably be used by those with ulterior motives to make use of the situation. Furthermore, in this kind of scenario involving the grand narrative of human destiny, it is also very necessary to minimize the influence of political factors.

The power of morality was indeed demonstrated at this moment.

After Lin Yuan was formally sued, several major international open source organizations expressed their dissatisfaction to varying degrees. Even GitHub, which is already controlled by big capital, called on the front page of its own article to lift the charges against Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan’s reason for open source is that Tesla’s delivery algorithm uses a lot of open source software. This is actually an unspoken rule in the software industry.

Companies use open source software to some extent, but they are generally not stupid enough to follow the "protocol pollution" of open source software and really open source their own software. Generally, they either obtain commercial closed source authorization or simply play dead.

But no matter what, the open source community admires Lin Yuan's feat, because it was obviously at the expense of his personal career prospects.

The open source community has been a gathering place for a large group of leftists since its inception. It can even be said that the open source spirit is inherently a leftist spirit.

Therefore, Lin Yuan's self-destructive open source is naturally easy to gain recognition from the open source community. As for business rules, WTF are business rules? Bill Gates has been regarded as a closed-source demon in the open source field for many years. In the face of ideology, business rules have to go away.

Soon, someone on the international network came out to use the meaning of the form to slap Tesla's attitude in the face, and even used it to slap the attitude of the United States. "Don't you always advocate freedom and equality? You have turned openai into closedai, and the spirit of open source has become a tool for you to make money."

Therefore, Musk is very helpless, because openai has really become closeai.

According to Musk's vision, the West's advantage lies in its pioneering work from 0 to 1, which is currently the only advantage the West has over the East. Pioneering work must reflect inclusiveness, which naturally includes open source software.

But now even OpenAI has become closed source. The reason why it was named OpenAI in the first place was to lead the world to embrace the arrival of the AI era with an open attitude.

As a result, due to the high R&D budget in the United States, which was led astray by the financial industry and could not be reduced at all, Musk had to introduce giant hardware to participate in OpenAI. So there was a legend that OpenAI spent 200 billion US dollars. Even Musk himself didn't know where the 200 billion US dollars went. You have to know that Musk was also a coder when he was young. He wrote code himself and he knew very well how code was produced.

So the question is, even though the code base of OpenAI is huge and the data-related work is also very complicated, is it necessary to spend 200 billion? I didn’t spend so much when I founded Tesla.

In fact, Musk was not the original founder of Tesla. He became the largest shareholder through a large investment in Tesla's Series A financing in 2004, and then Tesla became his.

The total amount of Tesla's Series A financing in 2004 was only US$750 million.

Musk must be feeling very bitter because he invested 750 million out of 630 million US dollars to acquire Tesla.

Four years later, when Tesla's first car rolled off the assembly line in 2008, the total cost was only US$1.4 million.

Tesla's first car rolled off the production line with just US$1.4 million.

But now, with 200 billion US dollars, OpenAI has gone from open source to closed source.

Although AI is a huge investment, it shouldn’t be spent in such a way.

Therefore, according to Musk's original idea, he wanted to take the brainstorming route of the Linux system, with a commercial company as the core, and then use the power of the open source community to organize outstanding AI talents from all over the world through open source.

In other words, OpenAI should be a mediator and direction controller, similar to a core committee, to lead the development of the world's large AI language model.

As long as they seize the initiative and are open to latecomers, they will inevitably attract followers. Even if there are up-and-coming newcomers, based on the nature of open source software, they will inevitably use the results that OpenAI has already developed.

Even if it is not used, it is hard not to learn from OpenAI's experience and lessons.

Then all the latecomers will not be able to escape the shadow of OpenAI. This is a pure conspiracy, and this is the real power of open source.

Just like the Linux system, it seems that the Linux system does not make any money at all, but due to the existence of the Linux system, it is impossible for a second Linux system to appear in the world.

As for how to make a profit, when you occupy a large enough market share, you have ten thousand ways to make money.

Just like SpaceX seems to only make money by launching rockets, but in fact SpaceX saves Tesla electric cars a huge amount of marketing expenses. Because people will inevitably connect the two, and will spontaneously think that they are participating in SpaceX's great space exploration by buying Tesla cars.

This is Musk’s most ruthless conspiracy - the first-mover advantage.

However, all this changed after the evil company, Juying, got involved.

Microsoft is eager to monetize OpenAI and get back its investment. Since Microsoft makes money by selling operating system copyrights, it is path-dependent and naturally closed the source of OpenAI. Needless to say, the purpose is to go back to the old way of selling operating system copies.

Musk beat his chest and stamped his feet about this, feeling that this group of useless teammates was totally unmanageable.

What’s even more infuriating is that now even his own Tesla is so eager for quick success.

Musk had already prepared a set of words, which roughly meant that he strongly supported Lin Yuan's open source move, and then secretly stated that this open source was one of the results of OpenAI's work.

As a result, the Tesla board of directors and OpenAI jointly sued Lin Yuan.

(End of this chapter)