Precaution Shouldn't Keep Open-Source AI Behind the Frontier

Open models could spread power in AI beyond a handful of companies, but they also carry serious risks.

With model performance converging, user data is the new advantage — and Big Tech is sealing it off.

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.

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At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts—Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng—debated regulation, open-source access, and how America can compete as China