Open-source models are fundamentally necessary for most industries, countries and researchers to join the AI revolution at all.

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Where this collides

• Cannot both be true

  Access to large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized should be limited, meaning their code and neural network parameters should not be released open-source.

  Bengio says the code and parameters of large generalist systems that could be weaponized should not be released. Huang says open models are fundamentally necessary for most industries, countries and researchers to take part at all. This is the same release decision answered in opposite directions.

• Cannot both be true

  Securing model weights against theft is a more urgent policy priority than safety research, because security is built out of atoms and takes calendar time that safety does not.

  Brundage says securing model weights against theft is a more urgent policy priority than safety research, because once weights leave they never come back. Huang says open models are fundamentally necessary for most industries, countries and researchers to take part at all. Publishing the weights is the thing the security is for.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

• A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. MMMatt Mullenweg26 Sept 2024open source
• A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. MMMatt Mullenweg26 Sept 2024open source
• A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. DDDrew DeVault22 Aug 2018open source
• A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence can compel. MMMatt Mullenweg17 Sept 2024open source
• A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026open source

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