Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, made a striking admission on Friday that his company has been “on the wrong side of history” regarding open source AI, signaling a potential seismic shift in strategy as competition from China intensifies and efficient open models gain traction. The candid acknowledgment came during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, just days after Chinese AI firm DeepSeek rattled global markets with its open source R1 model that claims comparable performance to OpenAI’s systems at a fraction of the cost. “Yes, we are discussing [releasing model weights],” Altman wrote. “I personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy.” He noted that not everyone at OpenAI shares his view and it isn’t the company’s current highest priority. The statement represents a remarkable departure from OpenAI’s increasingly proprietary approach in recent years, which has drawn criticism from some AI researchers and former allies, most notably Elon Musk, who is suing the company for allegedly betraying its original open source mission.
The candid acknowledgment came during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, just days after Chinese AI firm DeepSeek rattled global markets with its open source R1 model that claims comparable performance to OpenAI’s systems at a fraction of the cost.
“Yes, we are discussing [releasing model weights],” Altman wrote. “I personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy.” He noted that not everyone at OpenAI shares his view and it isn’t the company’s current highest priority.
The statement represents a remarkable departure from OpenAI’s increasingly proprietary approach in recent years, which has drawn criticism from some AI researchers and former allies, most notably Elon Musk, who is suing the company for allegedly betraying its original open source mission.
这有啥, 他这个姿势,黄川粉经验丰富 无非是“没脸就打不着脸”呗
属实,有脸就不会选川普了
宫斗不是因为开源闭源吧? 主要是因为利益之争吧
现在开源的部分把AI架构里面后面一大部分的架构已经打崩了。现在不确定的就是Deepseek海量的初始训练数据哪儿来的,如果最后确定是独立做的那么绝对是氢弹级别的把所有华尔街和硅谷的关于AI的护城河全掀翻了。