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Mustafa Suleyman's case against open-source AI shortcuts
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI chief, argues against using Chinese open-source AI models via distillation, claiming they rely on 'somebody else’s knowledge' and lead to dead ends. He emphasizes Microsoft's focus on building models without distillation, citing limitations in open-source alternatives for general-purpose tasks.
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