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Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist for the AI buildout, which is ironic given that self-described accelerationists tend to champion them.

Dean Ball's widely-discussed claim, quoted and endorsed by Lambert, that open-weight models undercut frontier labs' margins and thus slow capital reinvestment into next-generation AI. ✦ AI generated

Dean Ball · Interconnects · 2026-07-20 · original ↗

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Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist, and I'm continually surprised to see the so-called "accelerationists" so excited about open-weight models.

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Training is becoming more complex and abstracted, with the ability to train a base model to be a general agentic reasoner becoming opaque – this is causing fewer entities to build base models and reducing interest in open-source AI investment.Interconnects AI · Interconnects · conf 60%