The White House AI Action Plan emphasizes accelerating AI adoption across government and encourages open-source and open-weight models to reduce reliance on large cloud providers. Open-source and open-weight models allow startups, businesses, and governments to download and modify models and address the handling of sensitive data that cannot be sent to closed vendors. Open-weight models enable organizations to build tailored AI workflows and could become global standards. Policy recommendations call for making compute resources more financially accessible, partnering with technology companies, and supporting the National AI Research Resource pilot. High compute costs and specialized accelerators currently limit adoption by governments and startups.
Open source AI: Accelerating government adoption A key aspect of this pillar is the call to "Encourage Open-Source and Open-Weight AI," a philosophy that aligns with Red Hat's views on open source AI. The White House action plan states that "Open-source and open-weight AI models are made freely available by developers for anyone in the world to download and modify," offering significant value to startups, businesses and governments by reducing their reliance on large cloud providers.
The plan recommends policy actions to address this barrier, including making compute resources more financially accessible to startups, partnering with leading technology companies to increase access to computing and models, and significantly supporting the National AI Research Resource pilot. These recommendations are vital, and the endorsement of integrated research and pilots between academia, industry and government is particularly encouraging. The White House accurately identifies that the high cost of compute and specialized accelerators prevents governments and startups from fully leveraging AI's power today.
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