Why are they doing this? To try head off accusations about distillation?
Sometimes you're confident about what you're doing and show how you work to the world.
Keeping the garage door open, or at least making the door translucent. It's always cool.
That China's official policy is now to prefer open models and open model development may be a part of it.
BRICS just had a New Delhi meeting where Xi pushed a 5-point plan on AI cooperation that centered on open source models
With that policy in place, labs might be incentivized to be creative in their openness. This being fun/free PR
Bottom of the page says "Open is what we value."
Sometimes you're confident about what you're doing and show how you work to the world.
Keeping the garage door open, or at least making the door translucent. It's always cool.
That China's official policy is now to prefer open models and open model development may be a part of it.
BRICS just had a New Delhi meeting where Xi pushed a 5-point plan on AI cooperation that centered on open source models
With that policy in place, labs might be incentivized to be creative in their openness. This being fun/free PR
Bottom of the page says "Open is what we value."