Circ-Le-Jerk t1_jedmrom wrote on March 31, 2023 at 6:47 AM

Reply to comment by ninjasaid13 in LAION launches a petition to democratize AI research by establishing an international, publicly funded supercomputing facility equipped with 100,000 state-of-the-art AI accelerators to train open source foundation models. by BananaBus43

The government frequently licenses technology they fund to the private sector. It’s the whole point.

ninjasaid13 t1_jedn83g wrote on March 31, 2023 at 6:53 AM

Well this isn't private sector right? CERN is nothing like OpenAI.

Circ-Le-Jerk t1_jedub44 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:35 AM

You’re right CERN is nothing like OpenAI because the private sector has no use for knowing what a Higgs boson is. But they do have parents https://patents.justia.com/assignee/cern

By law in most countries they are required to license and lease out these things to the private sector. They can’t do patent sitting to sniffle the private sector. So whatever they figure out would be required to go into for profit hands