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Sam Altman planned local GPT-3-level model release to preempt competitors

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Sam Altman, in an email exposed during the Musk v. Altman lawsuit, revealed OpenAI's intention to release a local, consumer-hardware-compatible language model with capabilities similar to GPT-3. This move, planned for October 2022, was aimed at preempting competitors like Stability AI and discouraging the funding of similar independent efforts. The email also touched upon broader discussions regarding OpenAI's open-source strategy. AI

IMPACT Reveals strategic thinking behind local model releases and competitive positioning in the LLM space.

RANK_REASON The item is a blog post discussing an old email from Sam Altman that was revealed in a lawsuit, rather than a direct announcement or release from OpenAI.

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Sam Altman planned local GPT-3-level model release to preempt competitors

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 (TL) ·

    Quoting Sam Altman

    <blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/techemails/status/2078854346683678927"><p>We have been having extensive discussions around open source strategy. We will discuss it more at our next board meeting, but one thing we’d like to do soon is to create a language model with the appr…

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