AI’s takeoff rests on decades of open research and open infrastructure
roydanroy · x · 2026-07-26
The post argues that today’s AI takeoff stands on decades of open research and open infrastructure: the Transformer, backprop, ImageNet, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, CUDA, Linux, the open Internet, and the open-source code that became training data.
Its core claim is that modern AI companies and labs would not exist without this long public stack of ideas, tools, and datasets.
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