Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

That’s an impossible ask. Sam is the pinnacle of capitalist ruling class, he’s a pure businessman. He has no interest in giving anything for free unless there’s a business plan. He doesn’t care about humanity. He’ll pretend to change the world and tell you that they’re inventing AGI, Q*, strawberry or whatever they’re branding it, but the reality is he knows it’s all over and unless there’s a major breakthrough this company will be in major financial trouble. Sorry for the rant but he doesn’t deserve much respect for turning all this science to grift. He’s actually the person the old openai board warned everyone about.


Their state-of-the-art speech to text model, Whisper, is available as open weights for free.


Strategically, they know that needs to run at the edge, and they want users to send them requests to their API without incurring latency or bad user experience.

That is still a fair point, though, and it should be commended. And that hasn't been their only contribution, either.


They could've made it a trusted-computing-only model distributed with a proprietary encryption, unlocked with an expensive licence key if they wanted.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: