Why open source keeps catching up: weights and papers drown closed labs' secrets
YogurtExternal7923 · reddit · 2026-08-28
The poster argues open source catches up because the methods are public: closed labs must constantly reinvent the wheel to keep a lead, while many independent labs work almost collaboratively, releasing weights and papers until abundant public "secret sauces" overrun proprietary ones.
They also suspect Chinese labs share internal secrets with each other, explaining why a big jump at one lab is followed almost immediately by the others; if Gemini/OpenAI/Anthropic teamed up they'd have to compromise monopolies but wouldn't be struggling to keep the lead.
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