Xueba's computing system

Chapter 278 The Changes Here Are Quiet
What Musk calls channels refers to some channels with international open source organizations.

As the number one madman in the technology world, one of the important promoters of the commercialization of mobile payments and electric vehicles, and a pioneer in the private aerospace field, Musk has close ties with the open source community.

When the R&D resources required for advanced technology become increasingly massive, open source becomes the only way to make the most of it.

When Musk founded OpenAI, he originally intended to embrace the open source route, but later OpenAI became CloseAI, and the current attempt to push OpenAI back to open source has also failed.

The best window for OpenAI to return to open source has passed.

And this window was closed by a group of people on Wall Street who also came from Western civilization.

In order to make a lot of money by short selling, they took advantage of DS. If Musk were to deal with this situation, he should have ignored it after finding that DS was very favorable, and then quickly took DS back to force the investors of OpenAI to open source OpenAI.

As long as OpenAI opens source code in a timely manner, DS will still have nothing to do with it.

Because DS itself is open source, OpenAI can take advantage of the time difference, use the discourse power controlled by the West, work hard to squeeze out a time window and then copy DS.

Then they turned around and accused DS of copying openai.

In this way, the advantage of DS's low training cost is lost.

As for who copied whom, it’s hard to tell in the short term.

It is not important to clarify who copied whom. Whether OpenAI can return to the open source track is just a superficial phenomenon. What is important is the path of AI development.

In Musk's view, China has already embraced open source and has the strength to do so. The only strategy for the Chinese side is to continue to follow the open source path unswervingly by relying on its first-mover advantage in the open source community.

So, the situation is actually very strange.

Everyone knows that the development of AI depends on open source, or it can be said that the IT industry has benefited from open source and has achieved its current great development.

This is equivalent to the Eagle Sauce giving up the road to success that it once took. Then the Dragon Country naturally followed the Eagle Sauce's previous path to success.

Aaron is also confused.

"I don't know why Eagle gave up on itself. I wanted to compete with it in the open source world to see who is more innocent. But, boy, it gave up first."

"I don't understand why Eagle stabbed himself twice right after coming here."

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Looking around the world, there are only two companies that have the financial strength to invest in AI. If one of them chooses to close the source code, then the rest of the world will have to follow the other company and open source it. Because everyone has no choice. In the face of real money, ideology and value orientation will all go away.

What’s even more frightening is that open source can also bring about an improvement in soft power.

Behind open source is "knowledge without defenses". Human beings' desire for fairness is deeply buried in their hearts, and equal access to knowledge is the starting point of all fairness.

Therefore, open source will bring great recognition of values.

Since open source has so many benefits, why did OpenAI become closed source?

Because the benefits of open source are long-term and for the entire group, but the benefits of closed source are minute-by-minute and can be seen immediately by OpenAI's investors.

It is precisely because of this that the bloodthirsty jackals of capital on the Eagle Sauce side will not hesitate to stab their own country's AI industry in the back, because stabbing is not the goal, but the short-selling profits brought by stabbing is the goal.

Even if this move will push DS to the throne of international AI open source field. But who cares, the knife music that falls into the pocket is the most real. Anyway, doing so is legal in the United States.

Ultimately, Musk's attempt to return OpenAI to open source failed.

To remedy the situation, as Lin Yuan expected, Musk started telling stories again. As a result, grok3 was hastily pushed out as a firefighter.

Although Musk has apparently withdrawn from the board of directors of OpenAI in 2018, Musk and OpenAI still have a lot of cooperation, both as an important founder of OpenAI and for the integration of the AI field.

But now, Musk can officially give up on OpenAI.

As a backup, grok-1 was partially open sourced after its launch in 2023.

grok-1 is licensed under the Apache 2.0 protocol. It is free for commercial use, but requires that the copyright notice be marked and that it cannot be used for military purposes. In addition, it is specifically required that any model adjusted based on grok-1 must also be open source.

It can be said that grok-1 wants to be open source.

But with grok-1.5, the original intention of open source had to be suspended.

The reason is still the same old problem - investors are eager to get their money back.

Given the current development efficiency of the West and their powerful AI training technology routes, it is impossible for Musk to pay for the completion of an entire AI language model alone.

In fact, this is not just a matter of money, it also involves the issue of equal treatment. Not investing in others means being unwilling to share the pie with others.

The only thing Musk can do is to try to control the dominance of grok and avoid repeating the old path of openai. At the same time, he also uses grok as a backup and whip that always sticks to openai chatGPT.

Since investors are eager to see returns, grok is required to launch a paid API as soon as possible. After the model is deployed, the paid API is like a money-printing machine, and which investor can resist this temptation?

Of course, this means that open source is basically out of the question.

Therefore, Musk did not put much effort into promoting grok before. Because making money from paid APIs is not what a promising AI language model should be like.

In a word, it's an ugly way to eat.

But after chatGPT was hit hard by DS, in order to keep chatGPT alive, its investors finally had to agree to embrace open source in the next version.

Similarly, Musk's grok no longer faces resistance from diss open source.

So at this juncture, grok-3 came on the scene as a firefighter. And Musk also promised to open source grok3 a few months after its release.

Lin Yuan also watched the grok3 press conference. Awkward, really embarrassing!
Because the focus of the technology at the press conference was on model scoring.

Scoring is a very mysterious thing. We can even optimize some models in advance based on the scoring rules.

So it is natural that grok3 is ahead of DS-R1 in all kinds of scores.

Then a group of highly intelligent guys blabbed in front of the camera for a long time just bragging about how great grok was, but deliberately ignored an important factor - talking about output without considering input is just being a hooligan.

grok3 only dares to talk about scoring, but not output.

Lin Yuan complained in his heart, "As for scoring, as long as we spend more effort and don't consider the training cost, we can always make a model dedicated to scoring and evaluation."

This is like a car manufacturer sending a vehicle for inspection. As long as the manufacturer is willing, they can produce a few vehicles specifically for the test.

As for how much the car will be sold for in the market according to the standards of the vehicle submitted for inspection, I will just pretend to be ignorant.

The release of grok3 is a very important sign for Lin Yuan, because it indicates that the Eagle Sauce ship can no longer turn around, because they no longer have the courage to acknowledge the excellence of others.

Because only when you have no confidence in surpassing others will you dare not acknowledge the excellence of others.

(End of this chapter)