That's the last thing big tech companies want. Maybe Meta being the odd exception with Llama.

Right, in particular my belief long term is that there must be functional open source AI + Robotics that common people can own and operate.

Otherwise big corporations and/or governments will own everything and most folks will be serfs. However if you can buy a few robots and go run a homestead then there can be a counterbalance of people not beholden to the system.

A telling sign of techno-feudalism will be AI becoming heavily regulated and even illegal for common people to make or own. You know because “public safety”.

>I want AI capabilities to remain diffuse and spread out...

The most widely used AI systems are controlled by a few billionaires. I'd like to see it become much more spread out.

This smells like how markets would work well if everyone had a little capital. But money is too fungible. The more you have the more you can get.

But if electricity and hardware is a proxy for AI then those things are much less fungible. And if those two things in turn are not tied to the hip with money.

> If anything, you might say that I want "Open Source to win AI".

Has OSS won in terms of being software for the people?

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