Welcome to Replicate’s weekly bulletin! Each week, we’ll bring you updates on the latest open-source AI models, tools, and research. People are making cool stuff and we want to share it with you. Without further ado, here’s our hacker-in-residence deepfates with an unfiltered take on the week in AI.
Editor’s note
There are some weeks where it seems like open-source AI will never catch up. The powerful models everyone’s talking about are locked behind $20 subscription, if they’re released to the public at all. Open-weight models close the capability gap after a year or so. Actual open-source models, with weights, dataset, training code and inference code? Forget about it.
Don’t be discouraged, though. Sure, the megacorps are training multimodal world models in datacenters the size of cities. Maybe they really will build a god in there. I’m not qualified to say.
But those huge datacenters need electricity, and climate control, and security personnel. They need GPUs, new ones, bigger ones, and there’s ever more competition for those. They need the compute to do research, not just write your emails.
