The author makes some good points but I would be wary of the motivations.
Open AI's "moat" is they have got ~400 researchers to work in roughly the same direction, not working on their own projects with the sole aim of publishing a paper. The outcome is an amazing product.
Letting everyone loose with their own LoRa finetuned model that can beat a single benchmark (and make for a great paper!) is probably the wrong move. I'm yet to see any open source model that is even close to GPT 3 (let alone GPT 4) in actual real world use.
Open AI's "moat" is they have got ~400 researchers to work in roughly the same direction, not working on their own projects with the sole aim of publishing a paper. The outcome is an amazing product.
Letting everyone loose with their own LoRa finetuned model that can beat a single benchmark (and make for a great paper!) is probably the wrong move. I'm yet to see any open source model that is even close to GPT 3 (let alone GPT 4) in actual real world use.