“We Have No Moat”: Open Source AI's Breakneck Innovation
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Open source AI is accelerating, rapidly matching proprietary models. As innovation moves up the stack, the real value lies in security, usability, and experience.

In May 2023,a memo from an unnamed Google AI engineer leaked and quickly made the rounds of the tech newsophere, racking up thousands of comments on Hacker News. The memo was titled “ We Have No Moat…And Neither Does OpenAI”. The gist of the post was this — stop focusing on building the next giant model and start working with the open source community because they will beat us in the end.