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5 May 2023 Latent Space No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison
“Is that pipeline and JavaScript have a million packages. So no matter how good your new language is, if it can't tap into those existing package libraries, it's, it's not gonna be useful for, which is why Moji is so clever, because they did build on top of Pips.”
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- Simon Willison
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- 5 May 2023
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- Latent Space
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…I, I think it's, I think it's fascinating. It's I think Jim Fan from Envidia was recently making this argument for transformers. Like even if we do come up with a better. Architecture, then transformers, they're the sheer hundreds and millions of dollars that have been invested on top of transformers. Make it actually there is some switching costs and it's not exactly obvious that better architecture. Equals equals we should all switch immediately tomorrow. It's, it's, it's kinda like the, the difficulty of launching a new programming language today Yes. Is that pipeline and JavaScript have a million packages. So no matter how good your new language is, if it can't tap into those existing package libraries, it's, it's not gonna be useful for, which is why Moji is so clever, because they did build on top of Pips. They get all of that existing infrastructure, all of that existing code working already. I mean, what, what thought you, since you co-create JAO and all that do, do we wanna take a diversion into mojo? No, no. I…
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