Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don't Get What People Want

Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don't Get What People Want Tim O'Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI--as long as it's open source. Tim O'Reilly's yardstick for measuring the worth of a company, person, or society has long been It's no surprise that O'Reilly-- publisher, internet pioneer, VC, conference organizer, and dispenser of tech wisdom --is applying that metric to the way people design and use AI. Specifically, he's pushing for a future where open-source AI is an elixir for the masses. He worries that, like Microsoft in the 1990s, today's hyperscalers are trying to lock users into their products.