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US-controlled data centres that will subject EU data to US laws and spying and whose profits will somehow evade their fair share of taxation in the EU.

So, no thank you, these are not the data centres we need.

IRIS² and Ariane 6 would like a word with you.

I think the main differentiator offered by Jev is not the ability to answer questions, most models can be coerced into that function if they don’t already have a dedicated pipeline for it, rather it’s the extreme speed of the evaluation, and very low cost that opens new possibilities.

That's an interesting project, lots of content to explore and teh interface is pretty good and snappy. I feel this is going to be a rabbit hole I'm going to lose hours to!

Groq =/= Grok

This is not about xAi.

Not everything that a Chinese company does is for nefarious reason or under the hidden agenda of the Chinese government.

The reality is much more mundane: many Chinese companies do not understand the expectations around open source. There isn’t anything really equivalent in China. The closest mindset is that things that are available to use, are available to take.

The notion of copyright -while not inexistent- is not really a basic cultural notion. Even more so, not caring about ownership, and not enforcing the legalities of it, is partly what allowed innovation at such rapid pace in China.

After all, the Chinese government mandated for decades that all foreign companies setting up shop in China had to have a 51% majority local partner, and technology transfer was mandatory. Basically a government-mandated mandatory transfer of knowledge, to be freely used by the local recipients of it.

So the intricacies of Open Source licenses are a bit lost. Many understand the benefit of it, but not the expectations put on them for this benefit.

In the case of Bambulabs, I suspect that, in their mind, they just want to control their platform. They show their misunderstanding of Open Source rights and expectations and I’m pretty sure they are baffled by the reaction.

It not necessarily malevolent or malicious, though it looks that way from a Western perspective, but more of a cultural impedance mismatch.

They are not idiots, but not everyone at that company will actually understand the duties that come with these licenses.

This reminds me of the fights Naomi Wu used to have a few years ago, going to other 3D printer manufacturers in ShenZhen who were using GPL software but would not release their modifications for their equipment.

She had a hard time making them understand and see the duties and benefits that came with using these types of licenses.

The social network I didn’t know I needed.

Where are the pictures pulled from?

No they haven’t. Copyright protected you against your work being used in ways you did not agree to.

Enforcement is another things but photographers and artists have had ways to push back against illicit use of their work, notably by larger corporations. Licensing is an industry based on this protection alone.

The difference is that now, large corporations with plenty of money are able to just swallow other people’s work and pretend it’s “fair use” and derivative enough that they wash their hand of the fact that their models, that they charge lots of money for, would not be able to output anything they were not trained on. At least you could argue that a large image model would have a hard time creating a picture of a cat if it hadn’t been fed pictures of cats that belonged to other people than the company producing the model.

I don’t know if training on the world’s data without compensation is fair or not. There are valid arguments both ways, but as an individual, it should still be your choice whether you want to allow your work to be used in ways you do not agree with.

I think people at large expect at least recognition, and if possible, compensation, for their creations.

When a consumption system is built around providing neither, I don’t think we should be surprised that people feel slighted.

I think RAM shortages would be the least of our problems…

Assuming China takes TSMC in one piece (unlikely without internal sabotage in the best case scenario), it would still probably take years before it produces another high end GPU or CPU.

We would probably be stuck with the existing inventory of equipment for a long time…

This is wild. What baffles me the most is how youtube can let these leeches profit from their platform to this extent.

I can’t help but be cynical and think that Google profited so much from the scam that they just turned a blind eye to the manipulations.

Nice tool for working multiple sessions without them tripping over each-other.

I appreciate that you provided multiple OS versions rather than just go for Mac only like some.

Fascinating to see that Mirepoix is such and old base that it was imported into the new continent and adapted with what was available locally!

I think a real value of AI in Engineering will be when it can act as a reviewer.

Reviewing drawings for incompleteness, contradictory informations, deviations from standards, etc and making recommendations would be very valuable.

It doesn’t need to be perfect to be useful.