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David Siegel Endowment Argues Governments and Nonprofits Should Fund Open Source AI
A Siegel Endowment paper published in Fortune makes the case for public and philanthropic investment in free, open source AI, hitting 243 points and 86 comments on Hacker News. The argument matters because open-weight funding has been almost entirely a byproduct of corporate strategy — Meta's, Alibaba's, Mistral's — which makes the open ecosystem hostage to those companies' strategy shifts. A durable non-corporate funding source would change that dependency.
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