antirez: Open-Source Models Are Actually Accelerating Progress
antirez · x · 2026-07-19
This is the opening of a thread by antirez, arguing that open-source models are not a "decelerator"; rather, they accelerate the diffusion of capabilities and drive competition.
His follow-up points to a trend: over the past two years, frontier labs have behaved with unusual alignment. They no longer share papers publicly like before, and no single company has achieved a runaway breakthrough. This suggests that current progress relies more on the continuous stacking of existing ideas, GPU resources, and expert teams, rather than exclusive, original breakthroughs by a few companies.
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