AI boom rests on decades of open research, open infrastructure and open-source code
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-07-26
Today's AI boom, the post argues, rests on decades of open research and open infrastructure:
- The Transformer, backpropagation, ImageNet, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, CUDA, Linux, books, the open internet, and millions of open-source GitHub codebases all fed into the current wave.
- The point is that without this accumulated public stack, today’s AI labs and companies would not exist.
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