Someone wrote Google three years ago asking them to open-source Gemini. The group argues it would be a competitive advantage and an American need, comparing it to Firefox. They say Demis Hassabis' excuse about insufficient compute is really about protecting the smaller Gemma model.
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I wrote a letter to Google management 3 years ago where I said, if you open source it, you will win. I said— I think they should. They should. They're actually gonna allow, um, distillation from Gemini.
Sundar, if you're, if you're watching, please join us on the pod and we'll have a conversation. Do you open source Gemini? That would be fun. America needs it. Yeah, America needs— that would be an amazing move.
It'd be like the Netscape, Netscape to Firefox move. We, like, in, in the era of Microsoft, we need like a top-tier American open-weight model, Google could deliver that?
Well, Google have Gemma, but I mean, ultimately Google's mission is to organize the knowledge of the world and make it accessible and useful. What's better than that than open-source models?
You remember Demis's excuse, his sort of quasi-public apology for why Gemini itself wasn't open-weight? The claim was we would open-weight it, open-source it if we had the compute, but we don't have the compute. So instead, we only have the compute available for Gemma. Now, if that commercial argument goes away, then that argument goes away and Google can open— wait, open source Gemini.
Totally. You know, that would be the move of the century if they open sourced it and they tied it to the TPUs. Yes. And tied it to GCP compute and then just build the empire on the compute. That would be the move of the century. It would take over America.
Yeah.
Yeah. And the world. That would actually save the world potentially.
