AI

In his article »Revealing the Hidden Economics of Open Models in the AI Era« Frank Nagle summarizes the study »The Latent Role of Open Models in the AI Economy«, which he co-authored with Daniel Yue from Georgia Tech. He shows how clearly open AI models are underestimated in the current market. The basis is an unusually extensive dataset on usage, pricing, and performance of various models. ...

Once again, attention is being drawn to the underfunding of open-source projects, especially small software libraries. They’re hard to monetize, yet many companies rely on them. This time the criticism is aimed at Google. The company could do more, but has for many years supported the projects with staff time and funding. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes in »FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs« for thenewstack.io ...