Google's open source panic and AI's expiring rookie contracts

AI got a free pass scraping data from Reddit, Stack Overflow, and Twitter on the cheap. Now they'll have to pay up—and it may change the way models are developed going forward.

Before getting to the actual original Inference column I wrote here, I wanted to first acknowledge the leaked document on Google’s AI strategy and concerns around low-parameter large language models circulating. This researcher essentially says the company is encountering another existential threat from open source large language models that have fewer …