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I don't know, if I was financially independent, I'd do work that can be open sourced and free - get proper recognition - rather than giving it away to a corporation.

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That work would be far removed from the industry forefront. With none of the resources and team with you. It takes millions to develop, train and run these AI models. Your plan sounds dreadfully lonely to me.

They could join Mistral AI, which has published weights for at least some of its models. Another option is Meta AI, which has published weights for Llama and Llama 2.

> dreadfully lonely

On your deathbed you are likely not going to look back favorably at all the years you put in for bigcorp advancing the industry. Even if you do have a few white papers published, so what? Effectively nobody will remember them in 10 years anyway. Trying to find meaning by working for others doesn't pan out for most people. Bank the cash, get out when you can.

Sounds nihilistic, no thanks

Exactly the opposite

On my death bed I will only care about my kids and family. There is however hopefully a long time till I get there and during that time I would prefer to work on something awesome with good people. As we live in a capitalist system that is generally found in companies.

You're not exactly giving it away at 800K TC are you? :)

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