Something not sufficiently registered in the convo around AI/IP: the value that was gained from pretraining (on our collective legacy) is now common property.
People do pay more for frontier models than open ones — but the differences they're paying for, at this point, come from post-training.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:565ebob5f6hw33hjdkxty6qj/post/3mx5kpcad5c2e
Ted Underwood
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