The situation is somewhat different and nuanced. With weights there are tools for fine-tuning, LoRA/LoHa, PEFT, etc., which presents a different situation as with binaries for programs. You can see that despite e.g. LLaMA being “compiled”, others can significantly use it to make models that surpass the previous iteration (see e.g. recently WizardLM 2 in relation to LLaMA 2). Weights are also to a much larger degree architecturally independent than binaries (you can usually cross train/inference on GPU, Google TPU, Cerebras WSE, etc. with the same weights).
Chaos Reigns Inside Tesla as Workers Await Next Slew of Job Cuts – One worker likened the state of the company to ‘Squid Game,’ the TV series where contestants fight for survival. (www.bloomberg.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/XIAZy
Are we really about to talk to whales? (theconversation.com)
Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties (futurism.com)
Sam Altman Clearly Freaked Out by Reaction to News of OpenAI Silencing Former Employees (futurism.com)
College Presidents Are Getting in Trouble for Cutting Deals With Protesters (www.chronicle.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/D7SOU
Gentoo and NetBSD ban 'AI' code, but Debian doesn't – yet (www.theregister.com)
Open Source Initiative tries to define Open Source AI (www.theregister.com)
Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot (futurism.com)
ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t (www.vox.com)
GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites (www.technologyreview.com)
Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.extremetech.com)
Intel Gaudi 2 Complete Servers from Supermicro for $90K (www.servethehome.com)
Stability AI in talks to raise money from investor group (www.reuters.com)
Intel Readies Xeon Phi Removal For GCC 15 (www.phoronix.com)
Intel's OpenVINO Now Available In openSUSE (www.phoronix.com)
Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military (www.theregister.com)
Valve's Linux Graphics Engineers Begin Prepping RADV Driver For AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" (www.phoronix.com)
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg (www.phoronix.com)