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    In another sign that it may be open-source AI that drives the future, not Silicon Valley VC-funded efforts - QwenLong-L1 solves a long-context reasoning challenge that stumps current LLMs.
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    In another sign that it may be open-source AI that drives the future, not Silicon Valley VC-funded efforts – QwenLong-L1 solves a long-context reasoning challenge that stumps current LLMs.


    One of the most persistent biases in commentary on AI is many people's assumption that Silicon Valley VC-funded efforts are its main future driver. But all the evidence points to something bigger than them – Open-Source.

    Alibaba, the Chinese company that developed QwenLong-L1 isn't making their AI open-source out of the goodness of their heart. They get the benefit of lots of free workers improving it, and they also get to undermine their competitors. Many of the open-source AIs are Chinese. It's possible China may be coordinating their efforts on a national scale, as a tit-for-tat retaliation measure responding to the US trying to weaken Chinese AI.

    The global effect is the decentralized dispersion of AI technology with no one company or country dominating it – and in the long run, that will be its biggest outcome.

    QwenLong-L1 solves long-context reasoning challenge that stumps current LLMs

    In another sign that it may be open-source AI that drives the future, not Silicon Valley VC-funded efforts – QwenLong-L1 solves a long-context reasoning challenge that stumps current LLMs.
    byu/lughnasadh inFuturology

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    1. legbreaker on

      The central idea with open sourcing is that they get a lot more usage, prompts and feedback.

      People are basically doing free RLHF for them. They are giving the Chinese AI companies the Direct Model Training that is only possible with millions of users. They use it to review conversations for what makes a successful outcome vs failure.

      Bonus point is all the potential intelligence gathering from capturing those logs and potentially having an AI backdoor to millions of computers.

    2. Riversntallbuildings on

      Imagine if HTML had been VC funded. We all would’ve lost something. There is a crucial piece of innovation and discovery that cannon be purely profit driven.

      So far, Capitalism has produced the most social mobility within economic groups. People can move up (and down) the scale throughout their lifetime.

      That said, unregulated capitalism, produces some very unnatural and harmful effects on a lot of people without any other choice. Corporate pollution and wage theft/abuse are at the top of my personal lists. And I know there’s many more.

    3. Sea-Big-1442 on

      Silicon Valley VCs never drove the future. Almost all the inventions that improved our lives came from government-funded research, carried out by academics.

    5. semi_colon on

      China seems like it has been crushing the US on AI lately — what are they doing differently? I don’t think Trump has been in office long enough to be sufficient explanation (although obviously he isn’t helping matters).