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Paul Graham says YC’s newest startups are already moving back to open-weight models. Ollama CEO @jmorgan sees the same shift at scale, with coding agents driving a 150x jump in Ollama Cloud token use.
API bills grow fast when agents run continuously.
🦙 @ollama is used by 9 million developers and 85% of the Fortune 500, giving co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Morgan (@jmorgan) a unique view into which AI models people are actually using and how that’s changing.
Right now, the biggest shift he sees is toward open models, driven by
Reporter @eriqgardner flagged DOJ support for OpenAI's fair-use defense against The New York Times. The brief argues AI training is transformative and that mandatory licensing could favor the biggest firms.
The Trump Administration files a statement of interest in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times against OpenAI, taking the position that it’s fair use to train an LLM on copyrighted text.
After years of growth, US computer science enrollment and UK applications both fell sharply after 2024, according to @jburnmurdoch's chart.
The timing overlaps with AI's rise, but the chart cannot separate AI anxiety from a weaker entry-level tech job market.
I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead:
Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉
Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market ft.com/content/9183a1…
Chipmaker @nvidia agreed to buy @huggingface for $12.93 billion, nearly 3x its 2023 valuation.
The deal would put a central open-model hub inside the company selling AI's dominant chips, with a commitment to keep the platform open and support rival hardware.
Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI.
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