The world needs a high-quality, truly open language model. I wrote about why it’s necessary and why it’s easier to build than you might think.
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argmin.netThe World Is Something We Make...and we can make a truly open language model.
To add to your list a bit: @eleutherai.bsky.social is sort of there (though resource-constrained); @apertusllm.bsky.social is doing it (in Europe); and Mozilla keeps making mumblings about it and has a billion they could throw at the problem. And Nemotron is an increasingly interesting edge case.
anyway, 1000% agreed; the lesson from early free software is not "give up" or "practice purity politics", it is "we needed to bootstrap emacs and gcc on Solaris and DEC Unix and we're going to have to bootstrap the new openness with other tools too, but we'll get there if we work at it".
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