I'm not sure I'd put Google in that list, but either way: Because they think they have enough capital that they can catch up and don't need the reputational boost of this.
replyAs good as Gemini's visual intelligence is, it's a terrible agent.
replyGoogle at least still releases open source models to the public.
replyAren't they only open weights, not true open source?
replyThe concept of open source doesn't really apply to AI models since their behavior is mostly controlled by the data they were trained on and the complex ways they are trained. Having the source code of the model by itself wouldn't help you.
replyFrom a practical POV having all the training data, training infrastructure, and training know-how wouldn't help you either unless you could afford to spend the millions of dollars (hundreds of millions for a SOTA model) in compute to train it each time they released a new training set, in which case you're only talking about the big commercial companies. "open source for the people" just does not apply.
Thank Apple?
replyThose are mostly for embedded devices and the current "sponsor" is Apple.
Gemini 3.1 is still up there, though? If Google started to compete on price they could be very successful.
replyWait, are you claiming that these companies haven't contributed to the ecosystem via research and open source?
replyNo idea I don’t work there.
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