Open Source May Not Decentralize Power
slashML · x · 2026-07-18
An OpenAI employee highlighted a perspective on open source: open source might not decentralize power, as the high barriers to developing "next-gen models" could ultimately concentrate capabilities within a few frontier labs.
This post isn't about a product launch but rather an analysis of the relationship between open source, compute barriers, and power concentration.
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