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Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing


DC went to YC to talk OS.

It was a stark left turn (or return, if you’re a Linux head) from the app-obsessed 2010s, when developers seemed happy to containerize their technologies and hand them over to bigger platforms for distribution. "With the rise of compound AI systems and agent architectures, using small but fine-tuned open source models gives significantly better results than an [OpenAI] GPT4, or [Google] Gemini. The celebrity speaker of Thursday’s event, a last-minute addition to the program, was Andrew Ng, the cofounder of Coursera, founder of Google Brain, and former chief scientist at Baidu.

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