Disagree. I was on one of these R&D/prototyping teams running ML experiments and you're right, it was the company wanting to present itself as future-leaning, ready to adapt, and I would say that at this point it was a good move to have employees who understand where the tech is going.
Companies with internal teams that are able to implement open source models are in a much better negotiating position for the B2B contracts they're looking at for integrating GPT into their workflow, they won't need GPT as much, if they can fallback on their own models, and they will be better able to sit down with the sales engineers and call bullshit when they're being sold snake oil.
Disagree. I was on one of these R&D/prototyping teams running ML experiments and you're right, it was the company wanting to present itself as future-leaning, ready to adapt, and I would say that at this point it was a good move to have employees who understand where the tech is going.
Companies with internal teams that are able to implement open source models are in a much better negotiating position for the B2B contracts they're looking at for integrating GPT into their workflow, they won't need GPT as much, if they can fallback on their own models, and they will be better able to sit down with the sales engineers and call bullshit when they're being sold snake oil.