It’s always interesting to see who has legitimacy in the eyes of mainstream media. The “other companies” mentioned are EleutherAI and Open Future, both of whom co-authored the letter, and LAION who signed it. All three orgs are major players in the open source AI space, and EAI & LAION are arguably bigger than GitHub and CC given that this is specifically about the impact of the EU AI Act on open source large scale AI R&D. Of course, MSN’s target audience hasn’t heard of EleutherAI or LAION.
It’s always interesting to see who has legitimacy in the eyes of mainstream media. The “other companies” mentioned are EleutherAI and Open Future, both of whom co-authored the letter, and LAION who signed it. All three orgs are major players in the open source AI space, and EAI & LAION are arguably bigger than GitHub and CC given that this is specifically about the impact of the EU AI Act on open source large scale AI R&D. Of course, MSN’s target audience hasn’t heard of EleutherAI or LAION.
Note that other orgs have also done blog posts on this topic: EleutherAI (co-written by me), Hugging Face, Creative Commons, Open Future.