What Nathan Lambert thinks about motivation

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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1. 3 Feb 2025

   Our readingOpen-source AI is still an ideological mission rather than an ecosystem, because it has none of the feedback loops that make open-source software compound.

   LLMsopen sourceAmerica

   Their wordsuntil there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?

   ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 42nd of 44 in this recording