This wasn’t about integrating commercial AI, or even AI generated code, but supporting local, open weights AI.
Fedora has approved its own AI Developer Desktop initiative with a unanimous council vote. Three Atomic Desktop images are planned, two of them CUDA-enabled, and none of them would be phoning home to cloud services. source
Personally I saw it as a positive, when only criminals corpos have guns AI etc. Local only alternatives should be encouraged.
This is the correct way to do AI, use it when possible locally, without gate keeping its secrets and without violating user’s privacy. If AI is here to stay, I would much rather have alternatives like this than couple tech oligarchs dominating the whole field.
Except that it isn’t. There are many open AI models being created by non-corporate entities, NousResearch is one of the more popular ones. They are dedicated to creating open models for the betterment of all.
And even if you do use open models that were created by a corporation… ok. It isn’t like using those models on your own hardware, on your own network, is going to be providing anything to those corporations.
This wasn’t about integrating commercial AI, or even AI generated code, but supporting local, open weights AI.
Personally I saw it as a positive, when only
criminalscorpos havegunsAI etc. Local only alternatives should be encouraged.This is the correct way to do AI, use it when possible locally, without gate keeping its secrets and without violating user’s privacy. If AI is here to stay, I would much rather have alternatives like this than couple tech oligarchs dominating the whole field.
It is all corpo controlled though. The open AI is still using models created by corporations.
Except that it isn’t. There are many open AI models being created by non-corporate entities, NousResearch is one of the more popular ones. They are dedicated to creating open models for the betterment of all.
And even if you do use open models that were created by a corporation… ok. It isn’t like using those models on your own hardware, on your own network, is going to be providing anything to those corporations.