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Andrew Ng, writing in The Batch on 25 October 2023 and naming no company, argued that licences for large AI models would impede open source and slow innovation.

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Published Oct 25, 2023 [...] governments should require licenses for large AI models. If enacted, such regulation would impede open source development and dramatically slow down innovation.

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The Batch, issue 220 (Dear friends letter)
DeepLearning.AI (Andrew Ng) · 2023-10-25

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