Post says the U.S. led open models first, then let closed models take over
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that the U.S. and Europe did not “wake up late” to open models — they helped start the modern open-model movement.
- It points to Stability AI, Runway, and LMU Munich as the teams behind Stable Diffusion, which shipped while the market was focused on closed systems like DALL·E and Midjourney.
- It also cites Meta’s Llama as another major U.S. milestone in open models.
- The core claim is that Silicon Valley incentives and funding repeatedly favored closed models, so the U.S. did not merely catch up later — it led early and then “dropped the ball.”
- The attached Axios screenshot echoes that framing, saying the open frontier is no longer only a Chinese story and quoting Benchmark’s Bill Gurley on the topic.
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