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While the northern hemisphere is on summer holiday, we grind. Given there's not much tech news floating around as a result, we continued the discussion of AI from last episode – this time getting wildly philosophical about legal rights and the art of creation. With a few diversions along the way ;).

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I Made This – Hypercritical

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While the northern hemisphere is on summer holiday, we grind. Given there's not much tech news floating around as a result, we continued the discussion of AI from last episode – this time getting wildly philosophical about legal rights and the art of creation. With a few diversions along the way ;).
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<li><a href="https://hypercritical.co/2024/01/11/i-made-this">I Made This – Hypercritical</a></li>
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Meta this week released the latest update to their LLM, Llama 3.1. It is ostensibly a "frontier model" on par with its OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rivals. 

The difference i: anyone can download the model and the weights and run it, and build on it wherever and however they want, without paying Meta a cent.

Why? 

Glowed up Mark Zuckerberg wrote an article to explain his reasoning; the boys dissect: what the hell is going on?

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Open Source AI Is the Path Forward – Mark Zuckerberg

Meta this week released the latest update to their LLM, Llama 3.1. It is ostensibly a "frontier model" on par with its OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rivals.  The difference i: anyone can download the model and the weights and run it, and build on it wherever and however they want, without paying Meta a cent.
Why? 
Glowed up Mark Zuckerberg wrote an article to explain his reasoning; the boys dissect: what the hell is going on?
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<li><a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/">Open Source AI Is the Path Forward – Mark Zuckerberg</a></li>
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Llama-ma-mazing!

Meta this week released the latest update to their LLM, Llama 3.1. It is ostensibly a "frontier model" on par with its OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rivals.  The difference i: anyone can download the model and the weights and run it, and build on it wherever and however they want, without paying Meta a cent.
Why? 
Glowed up Mark Zuckerberg wrote an article to explain his reasoning; the boys dissect: what the hell is going on?
Links
<ul>
<li><a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/">Open Source AI Is the Path Forward – Mark Zuckerberg</a> </li>
</ul>

Recently, the eponymous founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz went public in announcing their support for Trump in order to protect what they called "little tech" – as opposed to "big tech"

To them, little tech basically means startups, which they believe are under threat from "bad government policies". While big tech is trying to entrench it's advantage with regulatory capture, little tech just wants to party.

We discuss the new battlelines, and – crucially – tell you which team to support.

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The Little Tech Agenda – Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

Recently, the eponymous founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz went public in announcing their support for Trump in order to protect what they called "little tech" – as opposed to "big tech"
To them, little tech basically means startups, which they believe are under threat from "bad government policies". While big tech is trying to entrench it's advantage with regulatory capture, little tech just wants to party.
We discuss the new battlelines, and – crucially – tell you which team to support.
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<li><a href="https://a16z.com/the-little-tech-agenda/">The Little Tech Agenda – Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz</a></li>
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