The inevitable need for an open model consortium

Percy Liang, a professor at Stanford University, discussed the Marine project, which aims to create fully open models. There is a trend towards forming a consortium of companies to finance a core set of open models, although the timeline for this is unclear. Neutron, a subsidiary of Nvidia, represents an effort to fund this direction within a single wealthy company. Recent months have seen significant changes in open model labs, with prominent figures leaving companies like Quora and Ai2. These shifts are not surprising, as the cost of keeping pace with advancements in artificial intelligence is rising.