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  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    OpenAI is used for two companies under one umbrella - OpenAI a non-profit and OpenAI a for profit companies. Basically OpenAI non-profit does research and published it publicly, then OpenAI for profit adds bells and whistles and sells it to recoup costs.

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            1 year ago

            I thought we were talking about the word "open". They don't call themselves OpenSourceAI.

            Not that I agree with them using the word "open" in their name, but it doesn't seem as unjustified as you're making it out to be.

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            1 year ago

            Aux explained the reasoning though, and it sounds like it has kinda works given that there are (I believe) a number of alternative LLMs.

            I do agree it is somewhat misleading though.

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            1 year ago

            The post's question was why do these companies use 'open' in their names. So, we aren't actually talking about open in the case of open-source. We're actually talking about why the companies have 'open' in their names.

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        1 year ago

        They do publish some open source software like Whisper TTS. Their core products are all proprietary though.