Plain Strata: The Gate Was Never the License
In 1960 the journalist A. J. Liebling wrote that freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. The right to print was universal. The press was not. On July 27 a lab in Beijing published Kimi K3, the largest open AI model ever released: 2.8 trillion parameters, about 1.56 terabytes, a license permissive enough to build a business on. It costs nothing to download. Almost nobody can run it. The reason is physical. To answer a single question, every one of those numbers has to be sitting in fast memory attached to a processor, all at once. So the size of the file is near enough…
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