Nathan Lambert argues that the increasing cost of developing frontier AI models will inevitably lead to a consortium of companies funding a shared set of open-source foundational models. He observes that many current open model labs face financial precarity, forcing them to choose between releasing powerful models openly or focusing on revenue-generating AI products. While companies will continue to release smaller, specialized open models, Lambert predicts a shrinking number of entities willing or able to fund near-frontier open models, suggesting Nvidia's Nemotron is an early attempt at this model. AI
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