The Great Leveling: Why the Secret Sauce of AI is Leaking Out
By Marcus Osei · 7 min read
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The atmosphere inside the Moscone Center during the last big developer summit was heavy with a realization that many hadn't quite admitted out loud yet: the moat is gone.
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But that world is dead.
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Last month, I sat in a dimly lit office in London where a developer was running Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B on a cluster of [NVIDIA RTX 4090 cards](/news/the-glass-wall-why-open-source-finally-caught-up-…
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For a long time, the argument against open-source AI was simple: it was dumber.
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That delta has effectively vanished.
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We are now in a phase of diminishing returns for raw intelligence.